Roxbury Correctional Institution

Roxbury Correctional Institution is a medium security prison operated by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Roxbury Correctional Institution

Location	18701 Roxbury Road Hagerstown, Maryland
Status	Operational
Security class	Level II Medium adult males
Capacity	Up to 1824
Opened	1983
Managed by	Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
Warden	Carlos D. Bivens
Notable prisoners
Fluctuates

Prisoners

In 2014, twenty-five war veterans at Roxbury took part in the nationally recognized POW/MIA recognition day.^[1]

In 2015, Darryl Strawberry gave a motivational speech to inmates at Roxbury.^[2] Inmates at Roxbury take care of animals through a program that also benefits the inmates.^[3]

Notable incidents

While a Roxbury guard, Jeffrey Wroten, was guarding an inmate at a local hospital, the inmate shot and killed Wroten.^[4]

Two former guards were sentenced to prison in federal court for assaulting an inmate.^[5]

Notable Inmates

Inmate Name	Register Number	Status	Details
Vernon Lee Clark	281508 / 218759	Serving a life sentence without parole.	Was originally convicted of 3 murders before being found guilty of a 4th.[6][7][8][9]
Malik Samartaney	77821 / 00486109	Serving a 41-year sentence.[10]	Born Lawrence Banks, who was originally convicted of murdering his own son and another man, Micheal Chisholm, in the 1990s.[11][12][13] Was later convicted of murdering and dismembering his own daughter.[14][15][16]