4 guards fall pregnant to same gangster inmate

A gang leader being hosted in Baltimore prison, impregnated four female guards. He allegedly gifted them diamond rings and luxury cars, reports the UK-based Metro newspaper.

A couple of these female guards were found displaying the man's tattoo on their bodies.

The gangster, Tavon White, was also known to control every illegal activity inside the prison from mob hits to smuggling of contraband products.

Earlier this week, Tavon White, nicknamed 'Bulldog,' admitted his crime in federal court.

He was minting money inside the jail by smuggling in drugs and mobile phones with little help from his accomplices, reports the paper. He reportedly used to earn $16,000 per month from his thriving trade.

The above-mentioned details came to light after the authorities busted a smuggling ring operating from inside the jail premises.

A total of 13 female prison guards, seven inmates and five co-conspirators face racketeering charges, according to authorities.

Baltimore jail scandal sparks response from state lawmakers

A federal indictment charging White and two-dozen others in a contraband-smuggling conspiracy has offered an embarrassing glimpse into a jail where inmates stand accused of controlling the very officers hired to guard them.

Effects of the scandal have been widely felt.

The state prisons director has moved his office into the jail to offer closer oversight, the jail's security director has been dismissed and top administrators there have undergone polygraph tests to determine what they knew about the criminal activity.

The indictment alleges widespread dysfunction at the Baltimore City Detention Center, a downtown jail that holds thousands of defendants awaiting trial or serving short sentences.

It accuses female corrections officers of sneaking in drugs and cellphones – sometimes in their shoes or in food – to incarcerated members of the Black Guerilla Family, a gang formed in California's San Quentin prison in the 1960s. The inmates in turn distributed the drugs to fellow detainees and used the contraband phones to arrange sexual encounters, spread the word about impending cell searches and conduct gang-related business with members on the streets, prosecutors say. They used reloadable, pre-paid debit cards to pay for their purchases, launder funds and transfer proceeds to gang members on the outside, the indictment alleges.

"There are impacts on the outside world of this activity that's going on in the inside," Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. Attorney for Maryland, said in an interview. "There's crime going on outside the jail as a result of people inside continuing to engage in gang activity."

Prosecutors say the man at the center was White, a 36-year-old with a long rap sheet who was being held on an attempted murder charge. He ascended to a gang leadership position – acquiring the title of "Bushman" – soon after arriving several years ago, investigators say. He impregnated four female guards, one twice. Two had his name tattooed on their bodies.

"This is my jail, you understand that," White told a friend in a January call recorded by investigators, court papers allege. "I make every final call in this jail, everything come to me. Before a (expletive) hit a (expletive) in the mouth, guess what they do, they gotta run it through me. I tell them whether it's a go ahead and they can do it or whether they hold back."

At least some of the jail guards seem to have reveled in their sexual relationships, acquiring money and status as high-level gang associates.

Inmates posted graffiti on the wall listing corrections officers they said were willing to trade sex for money. Internal gang documents recovered by investigators reveal that members were instructed to target guards with insecurities and low self-esteem, authorities say.

Corrections department spokesman Rick Binetti said that although the indictment "reads like a Hollywood script," the number of correctional officers implicated represents a small fraction of the workforce. He said the department proactively requested the investigation to help root out corruption and has made progress in efforts to seize contraband cellphones and disrupt gangs.

The defendants appear to have exploited the vulnerabilities of a jail culture that cycles detainees in and out, lacks the more defined structure of federal prisons and draws underpaid, sometimes apathetic, staff into an inherently challenging environment, said gang expert Jorja Leap, a social welfare professor at UCLA.

"You've got chaos, violence, a porous environment and law enforcement who doesn't want to be there," she said.

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