Box J.06

Most of the material in the Jail files covers the Baltimore City Jail and Maryland Penitentiary. One file contains coverage of the District of Columbia Jail. See also files filed under the heading Prisons, as well as under individual names of jails and prisons.

Includes two reports issued by the Jail Committee to then Mayor Theodore McKeldin on the Baltimore City Jail in 1946 and 1947.

Coverage of Jim Crow segregation in the city jail and the appointment of warden Hiram L. Schoonfield.

Includes coverage of a strike by guards and investigations of jail conditions. Includes a cut depicting March 1974 one-day strike by jail guards. Cuts are cuts only, with no accompanying image. For coverage of City Jail and Maryland Penitentiary riots, see Jail - Baltimore City - Incidents

Coverage of unrest at the Baltimore City Jail and Maryland Penitentiary

Includes coverage of the October 1972 riot at the District jail, and an undated cut of the jail exterior.