Death of Correctional Officer
In July, 2006, a Maryland correctional officer, David Warren McGuinn, was killed in the House of Corrections. This was the second such death of a correctional officer in Maryland that year. The first was Officer Jeffery Alan Wroten, who worked at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown. He was killed by an inmate while watching him at the nearby Washington County Hospital. His death was the first death of a CO in the line of duty in 20 years in Maryland.
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