Alfred McMurray Sr.

July 14, 2008 - 9:05am

‘Jack’ed up, Part 1

Late last week, Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson (D) announced that independent experts will review policies and procedures at the county detention center. The American Correctional Association and the National Institute of Corrections will be doing a top-to-bottom assessment of the county corrections system. The Washington Post says that the ACA will be receiving $25,000 for their trouble while the NIC, which is within the Justice Department, is doing the assessment for free.

I apologize if I am not excited about this. A review of the county detention center is coming after the worse case scenario happened (I would argue that an inmate dying while in custody due to a another human being as a very bad situation.) There should have been a review BEFORE the worse case scenario, especially after Alfred McMurray Sr., the county corrections director, was fired.

McMurray was fired after a series of incidents in the last few months, including:

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