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.PrisonersIn 2014, twenty-five war veterans at Roxbury took part in the nationally recognized POW/MIA recognition day.In 2015, Darryl Strawberry gave a motivational speech to inmates at Roxbury. Inmates at Roxbury take care of animals through a program that also benefits the inmates.Notable incidentsWhile a Roxbury guard, Jeffrey Wroten, was guarding an inmate at a local hospital, the inmate shot and killed Wroten.Two former guards were sentenced to prison in federal court for assaulting an inmate.