Prisoner homicides rose sharply in 2024. The 2025 count is even higher.
The state is on pace for another elevated year in 2026, with seven reported killings so far.
A bar chart showing the number of incarcerated people killed in Maryland prisons each year from 2012 to 2025. There has been a steady rise in these homicides over the last two years: of 59 people killed since 2012, 22 were killed in 2024 or 2025. In years before that, there had typically been five or fewer of the homicides each year.
