14 MORE BALTIMORE CORRECTION OFFICERS INDICTED AFTER PRISON SEX & DRUG SCANDAL WITH BLACK GUERILLA FAMILY

Fourteen more correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center have been indicted on corruption charges, shedding more light on the relationship between the infamous Black Guerrilla Family and the officers in the jail.

From the Baltimore Sun:

Prosecutors do not say the gang has continued its reign following the initial bust, but they say wiretaps and witness interviews have revealed just how much power the BGF accumulated.
As many as three-quarters of the approximately 650 officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center were involved in contraband smuggling, witnesses said in court documents, contradicting assertions by corrections department officials that the “overwhelming majority” of staff members at the jail were clean.
Some state lawmakers said Thursday that the latest allegations call into question whether state officials are moving fast enough to review possible gang ties among officers still working at the jail.
The allegations unsealed in April — packed with lurid details of sex behind bars and brazen boasts by gang leader Tavon White that he controlled the jail — set off widespread criticism of Gov. Martin O’Malley and the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
Twenty-five defendants, 13 of them corrections officers, were charged in that indictment. Sixteen of them, including White, have pleaded guilty to racketeering.

Eight of the 14 officers have already left the department; the other 6 have been suspended.

Some of the more blatant offenders include Officer Milshenna Peoples, who was captured on surveillance footage being fondled by an inmate. Sergeant Michelle Ricks was caught “singing a song of allegiance” to BGF.

“Court documents allege the BGF members recruited correctional officers through personal and often sexual relationships, as well as bribes, and that some officers traded sex for money,” the U.S. Attorney’s office said in a statement.

Tavon White, the leader of the Black Guerrilla Family who impregnated four guards inside of the Baltimore City Detention Center, pleaded guilty to federal racketeering conspiracy charges in August.

TAVON WHITE

White, nicknamed “Bulldog,” admitted to smuggling drugs and phones inside of the jail.

During a “slow month,” he claimed he earned more than $15,000 with the assistance of a “harem of correctional officers,” reports the Baltimore City Paper.

Of the six correctional officers in question, four gave birth to White’s children, and 2 tattooed his name on their bodies — one on the neck and other other on the wrist.

According to an FBI release, the corruption was deep and pervasive.

White once boasted in a wiretapped phone call: “This is my jail. You understand that? I’m dead serious … I make every final call in this jail … and nothing go past me … Any of my brothers that deal with anybody, it’s gonna come to me. Before [somebody] stab somebody, they gotta run it through me.” according to the indictment.

In at least one case, a corrections officer stood guard outside a closet at the jail so a corrections officer and an inmate could have sex, prosecutors said in court documents.

FBI agent Stephen Vogt said White “effectively raised the BGF flag over the Baltimore City Detention Center,” and the indictment brings that flag down.

White has already been sentenced to 20 years for second-degree attempted murder in what is described as “drug deal” gone bad. He faces another 20 years on the additional charges and is due to be sentences in Feb. 2014.