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.
Notable Inmates
Inmate Name | Register Number | Status | Details |
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Vernon Lee Clark | 281508 / 218759 | Serving a life sentence without parole. | Was originally convicted of 3 murders before being found guilty of a 4th. |
Malik Samartaney | 77821 / 00486109 | Serving a 41-year sentence. | Born Lawrence Banks, who was originally convicted of murdering his own son and another man, Micheal Chisholm, in the 1990s. Was later convicted of murdering and dismembering his own daughter. |