Prince George’s implementing jail recommendations

Published October 8, 2008 4:00am ET



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.

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