State says new jail should fix problems at detention center

Published January 23, 2007 5:00am ET



A new Baltimore City jail for women and children should fix many of the civil rights problems at the Baltimore City Detention Center, state officials said Sunday.

“We are going to build a new juvenile and women?s facility,” said Mark Vernarelli, a prison system spokesman. “That will take care of a lot of the problems when that?s built. We?re certainly not naive enough to think everything?s hunky-dory. The state has been working as hard as we can.”

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