While federal, state, and local authorities are diligently working to transform all of America into a vast prison state, check out what is going on inside one of their present penal institutions.

Corrections officer Jennifer M. Owens pleaded guilty Tuesday to involvement in a racketeering conspiracy to smuggle drugs and other contraband into the Baltimore City Detention Center for an inmate, a gang leader who fathered two children with her and whose name she had tattooed on her neck.

This is a classic case of the inmates running the asylum.

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