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TV network goes inside Carroll jail
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(George Hagegeorge/For the Baltimore Examiner)
Irwin Kramer, an Owings Mills attorney, poses as an arrestee being detained by Deputy Sheriff Jon Berry as part of a documentary about the booking process at the Carroll County Detention Center in Westminster. He is being videotaped Monday by Daniel Tayag, left, of Bowie, and Joe Davidson, of Towson. Lights! Camera! Handcuffs! A new Baltimore County television network shot a documentary Monday about the central booking process at the Carroll County Detention Center. “We’re opening a door that’s typically closed to the public,” said Irwin Kramer, an Owings Mills attorney who recently launched the Legal Television Network. Kramer, who worked as a radio journalist before becoming a trial lawyer, said he hopes his network’s library of law videos educates mainstream audiences about testifying, polygraphs and arrests without the legalese. He demonstrated how central booking works by wearing handcuffs and ankle shackles called leg irons, and acting as the perpetrator in a fictitious store break-in. Carroll County Sheriff’s Deputy Jon Berry cuffed Kramer, searched him and transported him to the Westminster jail. Deputies there frisked Kramer again, removed his belt and shoes, photographed his mug and fingerprinted him with an electronic scanner. Inmates’ fingerprints are sent to a statewide repository and then to the FBI, said Capt. Steve Miller. Lawyers mistakenly think people understand judicial and correctional systems and what people think they know, they learn from courtroom dramas, Kramer said. But he wants to change all that with LTVN, a Web-based network, which he plans to expand to television. Kramer is working toward an April online release of the law features, which include interviews with former FBI and CIA Director William Webster, University of Baltimore Law School professor Byron Warnken and former Solicitor General Kenneth Star, whose report as special prosecutor led to the impeachment trial of President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. |
