Inmate Named ‘Bulldog’ Rawdogs Four Prison Guards, Impregnates Them All

An inmate in the Baltimore City Detention Center by the name of Tavon ‘Bulldog’ White has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found to have impregnated four female guards, as well as overseeing a contraband and drug smuggling gang operation within the jail walls.

Yes, Bulldog went form Jail to Prison after allegations that he voluntarily rawdogged four jail guards. In addition to impregnating four of the Baltimore City Detention Center’s guards, Bulldog is a ‘commander of the Black Guerilla Family’, and the mastermind of a jail-wide cellphone and drug smuggling ring.

Tavon ‘Bulldog’ White was brought up on charges as part of a massive sting operation involving 44 inmates and guards, including 27 corrections officers.

And though Bulldog was facing 20 years in prison for his crimes, he only received a sentence for 12 of those years, as it was argued that Bulldog somehow made the jail a safer place for inmates and guards.

The Baltimore Sun reports:

The scandal rocked the state corrections system and garnered international attention. As a leader in the ruthless Black Guerrilla Family gang, White described in court how he and his co-conspirators smuggled drugs and contraband cellphones into the jail. White also fathered four children with corrections officers while in jail.

For his role, White won’t serve an extra day behind bars. As part of a plea agreement, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison, but that will run concurrently with a 20-year sentence he’s already serving for attempted murder. The attempted-murder case sent him to the Baltimore City Detention Center in the first place.

Over the past two years, 35 defendants have pleaded guilty in the jailhouse corruption case. One defendant died. And the remaining eight went to trial, which ended last week in the conviction of two inmates, two corrections officers and a kitchen worker.

Though White pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy — “a very, very serious offense” — Hollander noted the role he played in identifying other defendants and explaining to investigators how the illegal operation worked. She sat in on the recent trial, during which another judge presided.

‘Yes, mmmhmmm, you’ve cooperated fully. Give this man a reduced sentence for being a model prisoner! Never mind the fact that he’s impregnated four of our correctional officers, he worked with us and that’s what mattters.’ ….Is how I imagine it all played out.

The UK’s Daily Mail adds to the story:

The same prosecutors who painted a gang member as the architect of a widespread drug and cellphone smuggling conspiracy said Monday during his sentencing that he actually made the prison safer — despite impregnating four guards and directing crime on the streets while behind bars.

Tavon White was sentenced to 12 years in prison – significantly less than the maximum 20 years he faced – after prosecutors told the judge he quelled violence by instituting a no-stabbing policy among gang members and then took a substantial risk by testifying against others in the ring.

White, a commander of the Black Guerilla Family, oversaw a contraband smuggling operation inside the Baltimore City Detention Center that grabbed headlines and resulted in a sweeping indictment of 44 people, including 27 corrections officers.

Once the federal government’s primary target, and the poster child for the deep-seated and rampant corruption within Baltimore’s jails, White’s testimony became prosecutors’ most valuable asset. He spent five days on the stand.

During opening statements in the two-month trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Harding told jurors, ‘We’re about to go into a strange place. An upside-down world where inmates ran the prison and correctional officers took directions from the gang leader, all of them participating in an ongoing contraband and narcotics trafficking organization inside the prison.’

Prosecutors relied on White, who once declared in a jailhouse phone call, ‘This is my jail,’ and ‘I am the law,’ to prove it.

At the sentencing Monday, Harding told U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander that White deserved a sizeable reduction from the maximum sentence because of his cooperation. Harding said that although White played a significant role in the conspiracy, he helped make the jail safer, and noted that White took a substantial risk testifying against other members of the notoriously violent gang.
‘He has assumed a risk he will have to live with for the rest of his life,’ Harding said. ‘It took great courage to do what he did. This is a man in danger.

‘He became a favorite of prison officials because he quelled violence,’ Harding continued. ‘He generally made conditions less violent than it would have been otherwise. The government thinks that in a way, he was a positive influence at BCDC.’

Only in Baltimore.

When asked for comment as to why he was so cooperative in the sting operation, Bulldog reportedly replied with an old Ashanti saying used Norman on HBO’s ‘The Wire’:

For more on this story you can head on over to The Baltimore Sun’s Crime Beat and check out their video, or check out the coverage from the UK’s Daily Mail.