Roxbury Correctional Institution

Roxbury Correctional Institution is a medium security prison operated by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Prisoners
In 2014, twenty-five war veterans at Roxbury took part in the nationally recognized POW/MIA recognition day.

In 2015, Darryl Strawberry gave a motivational speech to inmates at Roxbury. Inmates at Roxbury take care of animals through a program that also benefits the inmates.

Notable incidents
While a Roxbury guard, Jeffrey Wroten, was guarding an inmate at a local hospital, the inmate shot and killed Wroten.

Two former guards were sentenced to prison in federal court for assaulting an inmate.

References

Category:Hagerstown, Maryland
Category:Prisons in Maryland
Category:Government buildings in Maryland
Category:Government buildings completed in 1983
Category:1983 establishments in Maryland