CA Inmate Cleared of Wrongdoing

Sept. 27, 2012 - PRLog -- Hollywood producer and CA inmate number F86550, Prince Maryland (The X-Files) was cleared today of running an illegal enterprise from prison.

OC Weekly investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley penned a scathing article about the producer on August 16, 2012 claiming several untrue facts as accurate including Prince Maryland trying to run an illegal enterprise from prison.

The article garnered the attention of Ironwood State Prison Warden Charles Long who immediately ordered an ISU (Investigative Services Unit) investigation into the matter.  According to Long the safety and security of the institution may have been at risk had these false allegations panned out.

During the investigation Maryland was placed in Administrative Segregation (the hole) for 31 days.  Being punished for a crime he did not commit took its toll on the former X-Files actor.  He voluntarily entered the Mental Health Program to obtain medication for his anxiety and depression.

Senior physician Robertson (former Head of Military Installation Psychiatric program) placed Maryland on a strict Prozac regime to combat his mental suffering.

In a statement issued to Maryland during a meeting with Warden Long and Associate Warden Mcinnie by Counselor Retagliatta, ISU stated they could not find any evidence of Maryland’s actions affecting or jeopardizing the safety or security of the institution.  Effectively he was found innocent of all alleged criminal activity.  

He had been placed in Ad-Seg specifically for criminal activity – trying to run an illegal operation from prison (according to the article).

Maryland had been working side by side with his long time colleague and close friend – UCLA Nurse Joanne Busch.  The two were actively combating domestic violence in a unique way – addressing men, encouraging them to “Take a Time Out!”.  The program is called “Don’t Hit, Quit!”  (see:  www.donthitquit.org)

Using his Hollywood contacts, Maryland Co-Founded Hollywood Helpers (see: www.hollywoodhelpers.org) , an organization dedicated to using celebrities to help Homeless U.S. Vets and Unemployed U.S. Vets by providing job training on movie sets.

Maryland has written 55 commercial screenplays and was in league with U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D) MI placing up to 10,000 military veterans to work including some disabled veterans.

“I’m disgusted,” claims Maryland.  “Chuck Long is a good man.  I bear no ill will against him or A.W. McInnie.  I’m perturbed at The O.C. Weekly.  Where did they get their facts?  Thin air?  Editors are supposed to verify facts.  Or is this a tabloid?”

Joanne Busch is equally upset.  “We had hired 20 people to open a phone room in Antelope Valley,” says Busch.  “Those people were excited to have a job, especially in this adverse economy.  Once Prince was thrown into the hole, everything ceased.  Potential leases evaporated, the window closed.  How do these people feed their families?  Can one man possess so much venom?  He libeled us.  And he hounded me.  I told him Prince would love to talk with him on record.  I have the email exchanges.  He obviously was not interested in the truth.  I asked his editor to please make this man stop bothering me.  He refused.  Then, after the article was published, I began receiving belligerent phone calls wishing I was in prison too.  I cried.  This has been a mental strain on me.  I felt like giving up.”

Maryland and Busch are considering their next move.  “168 women died from abuse while I was in the hole.  That’s a sobering fact.  Maybe we could have saved even one of them?” says Maryland.  “Someone has to pay.”