At the base of a towering tree in an overgrown Maryland forest, the gravestone of William Jones has been pushed sideways by roots and earth in the 138 years since he was buried there. Jones, a Black ...

Maryland state senator William C. Smith (D) and former Department of Juvenile Services Secretary Vincent Schiraldi want funding to protect and memorialize a site where 100 unmarked graves of Black ...

I started my legal career in the mid-1990s as a Baltimore public defender representing children in juvenile court. In the late 1990s I joined a civil rights law firm addressing juvenile justice ...

Marc Schindler, former assistant secretary and chief of staff with Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, summarizes to members of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland the marked gravestones at ...

Cop began to feed them until boy mentioned food allergies. — -- Maryland authorities, including Child Protective Services, are investigating possible child neglect allegations, police said, after ...

The unmarked graves of Black boys have reignited scrutiny of Maryland’s troubled criminal justice past. Maryland state senator William C. Smith (D) and former Department of Juvenile Services Secretary ...