Crime

In spring 2012, on average, 114 juveniles were locked up at Baltimore’s main intake center. This spring, the average was just 68. Maryland's juvenile justice monitor credits an initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. We’ll hear from the founder of the program and the state official putting into practice.  

Then, author Laura Lippman tells us about a new film adaptation of one of her novels, and the former Baltimore Sun reporter weighs in on recent headlines that could have been be torn from a mystery novel.

June 14, 2013

Can racial disparities in our prisons be connected all the way back to policing strategies? Today on "The Lines Between Us," we look at police-community relations with Baltimore Police Lt. Col. Melvin Russell, who heads up the department's new community partnerships unit.

June 14, 2013

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A 14-year-old Howard County girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend were charged last month in the stabbing death of the girl’s father, Dennis Lane, a real estate executive and local blogger. Lane’s death in his Ellicott City home shocked the community, and police could offer no motive.  While cases of children murdering parents are rare, Columbia-based psychologist Brad Sachs, who has extensive experience counseling families, talks about the dynamics of parents and troubled teens and the potential for violence in the most conflicted relationships.

June 5, 2013

June 4, 2013

A look at what it’s like to re-enter society following incarceration with three former Baltimore offenders who are all recent graduates of the Jericho Re-entry Program, a local year-long program to help get formerly incarcerated men get back on their feet. Original air date May 16

Keith Evans served over four years of a ten-year sentence for selling heroin. He's back out and looking for a job in Baltimore.

In this piece for our series "The Lines Between Us," he tells his story about trying to get a "second chance" and become "a citizen again."

Tomorrow Governor O'Malley will sign into law new restrictions on guns in Maryland. We talk to the woman leading a referendum drive against the bill and to a researcher who studies gun laws across the country.

Tom Hall talks to the winner of Washington College's Sophie Kerr prize, the largest undergraduate literary award in America.

Preakness is here Saturday. What will you be serving at your Preakness Party? Sascha Wolhandler has some ideas.

The Maryland Morning Culture Calendar: treats for aesthetes!

The Black Guerilla Family hit the headlines two weeks ago when Tavon White, other inmates and 13 corrections officers were indicted for criminal gang activity at the Baltimore jail. But, B.G.F.’s history reaches back five decades when Black Panther George Jackson started a revolutionary organization to protect prisoner rights. We learn what part of that political ideology is still visible here in Baltimore.