Unionized corrections workers said Monday that they are facing staff shortages and dangerous conditions in state prison facilities, citing a fire at a Baltimore pretrial detention center earlier this month that sent multiple people to the hospital. Patrick Moran (below, at left), president of AFSCME Council 3, said that, because of backups in state courts, people are being held at the detention center both pre-trial and post-sentencing. “Detainees are staying way too long at this facility and that leads to the situation like we saw,” Moran said. “The Hogan administration has continued to neglect the DOC, and their neglect has consistently put the DOC in danger — and I’m not talking just about our officers that are working in these facilities but, obviously, the inmates that they are overseeing.”
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