Corrections authorities agree to meet with civil rights groups about violence

Prison authorities Wednesday agreed to meet with civil rights groups about recent incidents of violence in Maryland?s jails and prisons.

Mary Livers, deputy secretary for Operations of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, wrote in letters to the Baltimore City NAACP and Justice Maryland that prison officials “are concerned about recent media reports regarding a number of incidents in both Central Booking and the Detention Center.”