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Editor's note: There are a lot of people you see around town that you recognize, but don't know anything about. People like ... George Keefer Age: 57 Occupation: Correctional teacher at Maryland Correctional Training Center Hometown: Williamsport Where would you see Keefer? After more than 33 years as a math teacher at MCTC, it's safe to say Keefer is comfortable in front of a classroom of students. As one of two teachers who operate the GED program, Keefer has helped 4,700 inmates earn their GEDs in his tenure there.

'Suspicious' death at MCTC probed By JULIE E. GREENE / Staff Writer The death of a Maryland Correctional Training Center inmate Sunday night is being investigated as suspicious and possibly drug-related, prison officials said Thursday. Bradley David Spitler, 29, of Owings Mills, Md., was found dead at 11:20 p.m. Sunday by a correctional officer, said Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services spokesman Dave Towers. Warden Mike Stouffer said there were no drugs found on or around Spitler's body.

Public Safety and Correctional Services Week was celebrated in Maryland from May 1 through May 7. As part of the celebration at the Maryland Correctional Training Center, Warden J. Michael Stouffer selected the following employees as Employees of the Year for 2004: - Todd McMahon, correctional case management specialist II. A Washington County resident, he began his career with the DOC in 1997 as a correctional officer I. He was Employee of...

A work release inmate from the Maryland Correctional Training Center ran away from his work-release job Friday morning, but later was captured and returned to MCTC, according to Maryland State Police press release. James William Young, 34, was assigned to a work detail at the County Commuter bus station at West Washington Street and Devonshire Road, police said. Young fled from his job about 10:30 a.m. when a Division of Correction employee confronted him about a conversation he had with a woman in a car, police said.

WASHINGTON COUNTY -- With a grievance already filed in connection with strip searches performed earlier this month on nine employees at the Maryland Correctional Training Center south of Hagerstown, union leaders are exploring the possibility of civil lawsuits on behalf of their members. The Aug. 12 strip searches turned up no contraband either on employees or in their vehicles, prison and union officials said a day after the searches. The searches came after scans by an IONSCAN counter-narcotic drug detection system indicated traces of drugs.

MCTC inmate is taken to hospital following stabbing incident A 26-year-old inmate at the Maryland Correctional Training Center south of Hagerstown was stabbed in the neck Sunday afternoon with an unknown weapon as he returned to his housing unit from the prison dining hall. The inmate was taken to Washington County Hospital by ambulance shortly after the 4:29 p.m. incident, said Lt. Priscilla Doggett, spokesman for the Maryland Division of Correction. Doggett said the inmate was admitted and underwent treatment for his injuries.

A 1998 attempted escape from the Maryland Correctional Training Center that involved three inmates, an inmate's wife and 18-inch bolt cutters concluded Tuesday when two inmates entered Alford pleas in Washington County Circuit Court. Entering pleas in the April 1998 escape attempt were: - Henry Davis, 39, of Baltimore, who entered an Alford plea to unlawfully receiving contraband to aid an escape. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison with all but 18 months suspended. Recently paroled, Davis has spent 23 of his 39 years behind bars, court records said.

HAGERSTOWN - Police were searching Wednesday for a Maryland Correctional Training Center inmate who drove off from a work detail earlier this week. Raymous Little, 43, was last seen Monday at a Washington County Roads Department shop on National Pike at 1:35 p.m., according to Sgt. Dave Bowers of the Maryland State Police. Police believe Little escaped in a Chevrolet truck that was parked in the shop's lot, Bowers said. A retake warrant has been issued for Little, who has family in the Baltimore area, Bowers said.

On Wednesday, 13 inmates at the Maryland Correctional Training Center will graduate today from the adult education program, designed to prepare them to find jobs when released. The program offers a certificate in business management with an optional minor in marketing from Hagerstown Community College. It is funded by the Center on Crime, Community and Culture and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, said Daphne Mathews, prison education department principal. The one-year educational program is for inmates scheduled to be released or have a parole hearing within five years, she said.