MARYLAND (7News) — Correctional officers in several Maryland state facilities will start wearing body cameras ahead ... a maximum security prison, began using the cameras on Wednesday.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed a series of initiatives to reform prisons as part of her budget. It includes requiring body worn cameras to be used at all times and creating a prison oversight board.

Correctional officers at five Maryland prisons will be issued body cameras over the next several weeks as part of a state pilot program to reduce excessive force complaints and assaults on staff ...

if designated by the commissioner of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). The DOCCS Body-Worn Camera Program would make them record video while on duty, capturing every ...

Body-worn camera program faces funding threat Prison officials are also fighting to expand body-worn cameras for correctional officers. A pilot program with 100 cameras started last month at Patuxent.