“The Greek,” Laurel Park’s oldest backstretch worker, eyes his next wager after decades on the track

Chrysostomos Christopoulos says he’s lived at Laurel Park for 25 or 35 years. Or maybe 40. “All the people here know me,” he touted. 

Charles Blagmond, a Baltimore Teen ‘Lost to the System’ in Cheltenham
BALTIMORE - Charles Elmer Blagmond was one of 243 youth who died at the House of Reformation for Colored Boys in Cheltenham, Maryland, a notorious juvenile detention center for Black boys and teens.  It’s unclear why Blagmond was detained by…
‘Not fit for a dog’: Maryland reformatory boys died through years of disease, neglect

Capital News Service investigated the history of deaths and abuse toward children at the notorious House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children in southern Prince George’s County. Here are our findings.