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.

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 ...

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.

The officers' violent attack on Brooks highlighted the grim importance of cameras inside New York State prisons. In this case, officers didn't know they were being recorded, with their body ...

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.