BALTIMORE (AP) — Demolition work has been completed at a shuttered Baltimore jail complex with a long history of corruption and disorder.
The Baltimore City Detention Center was closed in 2015 and the public works board in 2019 approved a roughly $28 million contract to demolish nearly 40 structures at the jail complex.
Plans call for a new therapeutic treatment center at the site.
Officials say it will provide mental health and substance abuse treatment as well as help those being released from prison reenter society.
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As demolition of the Baltimore City Detention Center comes to a close and we bring an end to the long, checkered history of deplorable conditions at the former jail, we are now making way for a new therapeutic rehabilitation and treatment facility that will be built in its place. pic.twitter.com/f4sQvg4MlF
— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) August 3, 2021