6-3-13: How corrections officers are trained in Maryland, growing up in a funeral home, and remembering Father Yod




WYPR: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast Podcast show

Summary: When you heard this spring that 13 corrections officers had been indicted, accused of fostering corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, did you wonder how they got to be corrections officers? We talk with two top officials involved in training about how it works. Then, when your first job, at age 15, is working with the dead, how does it affect how you view the living? We ask Sheri Booker, who’s written a memoir of her nine years working at the Albert P. Wylie Funeral Home in west Baltimore. Plus: theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the comedy "Pickle My Monkey ” at the Maryland Ensemble Theater in Frederick. And: a peek inside a new documentary about the Source Family, a 1970s cult led by the charismatic guide, Father Yod.