When a Maryland court sentences someone to home detention, the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services’ home detention unit is responsible for monitoring them. However, the unit is so short staffed, that the agency is eliminating the division’s night shift, which operates from midnight to 8 a.m.
The change is slated to take effect later this week, according to Rayneika Robinson, president of the local branch of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees that represents workers in that unit as well as in other parts of DPSCS.
Robinson said DPSCS plans to leave just a supervisor on the night shift…