Maryland is paying out $9.5 million — on top of $13 million paid previously — to thousands of correctional workers who were systematically shorted on their paychecks for years, likely one of the biggest correctional wage theft settlements in the nation. About 6,000 current and former state correctional officers were paid thousands of dollars that they missed out on, representing the overwhelming majority of officers working in state-run prisons and jails, according to their union. Patrick Moran, president of the union, placed the blame squarely on former Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican who was in office for the 2018-2021 time period covered by the settlement.
