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 In 2006, an inmate shot Roxbury guard Jeffrey Wroten while he was being guarded by him at a local hospital.
In 2014, two former guards were sentenced to prison in federal court for assaulting an inmate in 2008.
Notable Inmates Inmate NameRegister NumberStatusDetails 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.
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