City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0164R

• File #: 06-0164R
• Version: 0
• Name: In Support of State Legislation - (Senate Bill 1060/House Bill 1484) - Task Force to Study Prison Violence in Maryland
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 4/4/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 4/4/2006
• Title: In Support of State Legislation - (Senate Bill 1060/House Bill 1484) - Task Force to Study Prison Violence in Maryland FOR the purpose of expressing support for this legislation that seeks to establish a Task Force to Study Prison Violence in Maryland, focusing on the scope, nature, patterns, the fundamental relationship of violence in the State's prisons, the impact of illegal drugs and exposure to other pollutants as it relates to violence, as well as the best practices of other state correctional systems in dealing with prison violence; urging the Honorable Members of the Baltimore City Delegation to the 2006 session of the Maryland General Assembly to secure passage of Senate Bill 1060/House Bill 148; and calling upon the Governor to sign the legislation into law.
• Sponsors: President Dixon, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, President Young, James B. Kraft, Robert Curran, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Agnes Welch, Kenneth Harris, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Belinda Conaway, Paula Johnson Branch
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/4/2006	0	City Council	Introduced
4/4/2006	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Dixon


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
In Support of State Legislation - (Senate Bill 1060/House Bill 1484) -
Task Force to Study Prison Violence in Maryland

FOR the purpose of expressing support for this legislation that seeks to establish a Task Force to Study Prison Violence in Maryland, focusing on the scope, nature, patterns, the fundamental relationship of violence in the State's prisons, the impact of illegal drugs and exposure to other pollutants as it relates to violence, as well as the best practices of other state correctional systems in dealing with prison violence; urging the Honorable Members of the Baltimore City Delegation to the 2006 session of the Maryland General Assembly to secure passage of Senate Bill 1060/House Bill 148; and calling upon the Governor to sign the legislation into law.
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This legislation would create a task force to study prison violence in Maryland. The level violence in our prisons is an ever-troubling issue. A recent study by the Division of Corrections found that a total of 157 inmates had assaulted staff members within Maryland prisons, and the inmate-on-inmate assaults topped out at a staggering 322. This problem even extends out of the prisons and into our courtrooms. Pretrial submitted 9 inmate-on-staff assaults for the quarter and 91 inmate-on-inmate instances of violence.

In order to combat thi...