Prince George’s County officials have begun to implement changes at the county jail using suggestions from an independent report the county executive requested in late July, a county spokesman said Wednesday.
In July, County Executive Jack Johnson hired the American Correctional Association to review the jail, which has been under fire this year after an inmate accused of killing a police officer was strangled to death in his cell. Numerous other infractions have been recorded at the facility.
The ACA submitted its final report in mid-August, said John Erzen, Johnson’s spokesman, and the officials have been implementing its suggestions.
Erzen declined to go into the report’s specifics, citing the ongoing investigation into Ronnie White’s death as his reason for staying mum.
Meanwhile, two corrections officers, whom the county executive’s office have described as persons of interest in the state police investigation into White’s death, remain on paid leave, Erzen said.
