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Appointed by the Governor with Senate advice and consent, the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services is responsible for carrying out the Governor's policies in the areas of public safety, crime prevention, correction, parole, and probation.
The Secretary serves on the Governor's Executive Council, and the Cabinet Council on Criminal and Juvenile Justice. The Secretary also serves on the Education Coordinating Council for Correctional Institutions; the State Information Technology Board; the Institutional Educator Pay Plan Committee; the Interdepartmental Advisory Committee for Minority Affairs; the Pricing Committee for Blind Industries and Services of Maryland; the Pricing and Selection Committee for Rehabilitation and Employment Programs; the Vehicle Theft Prevention Council; and the State Board of Victim Services.
The Handgun Permit Review Board was created in 1972 (Chapter 13, Acts of 1972).
Any person whose application for a handgun permit or renewal of a permit has been rejected or whose permit has been revoked or limited may ask the Board to review the decision of the Secretary of State Police. The Board can either sustain, reverse, or modify the decision of the Secretary, or conduct a hearing to establish the facts.
The Governor appoints the Board's five members to three-year terms with Senate advice and consent (Code 1957, Art. 27, sec. 36E).
Computer systems that collect, store, and disseminate criminal history record information are designed, programmed, and operated by the Division. It also provides management information services to the Department and other criminal justice agencies in Maryland.
The Division operates the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository, Systems Operations [Public Safety Data Center], and Systems Applications. The Division also is responsible for the Arrest Booking System, first implemented in 1995 at the Central Booking and Intake Center in Baltimore, and now also used in Frederick, Harford, Howard and Montgomery counties.
The Criminal Justice Information System began in 1976 (Chapter 239, Acts of 1976). It develops and manages statewide information systems for the Maryland criminal justice community, including the courts; local, State and federal law enforcement agencies; local detention centers; State prisons; State's attorneys; and parole and probation officers. The System provides official records on persons arrested and convicted in Maryland. Through the Maryland Automated Fingerprint Identification System, individuals are identified and linked to their criminal history records.
JUSTICE INFORMATION SYSTEM CENTRAL REPOSITORY
The Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository originated as the Criminal Records Central Repository in 1977. The Repository received its present name in 1989. It provides criminal history record checks to criminal justice officials, and for employment and licensing purposes.
Systems Applications started in Fiscal Year 1987 as Management Information Systems and received its present name in 1997. Systems Applications is responsible for information processing services throughout the Department. The unit designs, implements, and maintains all Department information systems used for criminal justice and noncriminal justice purposes. It provides systems administration support, computer programming services, and user training to Department staff.
SYSTEMS OPERATIONS [PUBLIC SAFETY DATA CENTER]
Systems Operations (also called the Public Safety Data Center) was created in 1970. It processes public safety and criminal justice information for law enforcement and correctional agencies within Maryland. The Center provides computer processing services to the Department of State Police, the Division of Correction, the Division of Parole and Probation, Patuxent Institution, and several federal and local criminal justice agencies. Data transmission between these agencies and the Motor Vehicle Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System also is provided by the Center.
6776 Reisterstown Road, Suite 314
The Office of Inspector General was authorized in May 1987 as the Division of Audits and Compliance, an independent unit within the Office of Secretary. The Division was established by the Secretary in compliance with the Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (SPPIA), which require every internal audit unit to have a written charter (Code Correctional Services Article, sec. 2-112). In 1993, the Division reorganized as the Office of Inspector General with units for audits, investigations, and management services.
The Office ensures objective review of agency facilities, property, equipment, personnel, administration, and operations. To assist the Secretary in evaluating each unit's management, the Office conducts financial, performance, program and grant audits or inspections within the Department.
The Division of Research and Statistics organized in 1981. The Division develops, maintains, and monitors statistics; develops databases for research; and reviews, develops, and provides technical assistance for information systems. Evaluations and impact assessments also are prepared by the Division.
The Deputy Secretary for Support Services oversees the Division of Support Services. The Division includes Telecommunications, and four offices: Capital Construction and Facilities Maintenance; Food Services; Inmate Health Services; and Property Management Services.
6776 Reisterstown Road, Suite 201
7695 Old Jessup Road
The Office of Capital Construction and Facilities Maintenance began under the Deputy Secretary as the Division of Capital Construction and the Division of Facilities Maintenance, both created in 1990. They combined in 1997 to form the present office.
The Office procures construction and related services for State correctional facilities. It also maintains Department facilities, including those of Patuxent Institution, the Police and Correctional Training Commissions, and institutions of the Division of Correction.
This office originated from the Office of Property Management Services, initiated in 1993, and Food Services formerly administered by the Division of Correction. They merged in 1997 to form the Office of Food and Property Services separated in 1999, and became the Office of Food Services and the Office of Property Management Services again.
The Office of Inmate Health Services began operation in 1997 as the Office of Inmate Health Care and received its present name in 1999. Inmate Health Services oversees Continuous Quality Improvement, Health Care Administration, Infection Control, Inmate Mortality and Utilization Management, Medical Contract Audits, Medical Services, and Social Work and Addiction Services.
The Office of Property Management Services was created in 1993. The Office coordinates administration of the Department's motor vehicle fleet, property inventory, and commercially leased space.
Administration oversees the Commission on Correctional Standards, the Police and Correctional Training Commissions, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, the Emergency Number Systems Board, the Inmate Grievance Office, and the Human Resources Administration. It also is responsible for Accounting Operations; Budget Management; Labor Relations; Procurement Services; and Risk Management.
Instituted in 1968, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board helps victims of crime (Chapter 455, Acts of 1968). The Board administers compensation for innocent persons suffering physical injury or death as a result of criminal acts or in their efforts to prevent crime or apprehend criminals. The Board maintains an office and staff to investigate and hear claims for awards filed with the Board.
The Board has five members appointed for five-year terms by the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services with the Governor's approval and Senate advice and consent. With the approval of the Governor, the Secretary designates the chair. The Board appoints the Executive Director with the approval of the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services (Code 1957, Art. 26A).
The Board issues guidelines for county 911 system plans and determines review procedures to approve or disapprove these plans. The Board sets criteria for reimbursing counties from the original 911 Trust Fund and from ongoing funds, and provides for audit of Trust Fund accounts. All 911-related information and procedures are transmitted by the Board to the county executive and county council, or to the president of the board of county commissioners of each county and/or its designated 911 committee representative.
The Board's thirteen members are appointed to four-year terms by the Governor with Senate advice and consent. The Governor names the chair (Code 1957, Art. 41, secs. 18-101 through 18-108).
6776 Reisterstown Road, Suite 302
Any person confined to an institution within the Division of Correction, or otherwise in the custody of the Commissioner of Correction, or confined to Patuxent Institution may submit any grievance or complaint against any official or employee of the Division of Correction or Patuxent Institution to the Inmate Grievance Office. A grievance or complaint that merits further consideration is referred to the Office of Administrative Hearings.
6776 Reisterstown Road, Suite 303
The Commission on Correctional Standards formed in 1980 to improve standards for correctional facilities and programs and to ensure compliance with standards for the public health, safety, and welfare (Chapter 535, Acts of 1980).
The Commission advises the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services on standards for State and local correctional facilities; provides technical assistance to local governments; audits facilities to determine compliance with correctional standards; and determines schedules for remedial action of jurisdictions that do not comply. After a public hearing, the Commission may order a correctional facility to close if it does not comply with established standards. The Commission also reviews and acts on appeals of staff audit reports.
The Commission has eleven members. Eight are appointed for three-year terms by the Governor with Senate advice and consent. Three serve ex officio. With the approval of the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services, the Commission appoints the Executive Director (Code Correctional Services Article, secs. 8-106 through 8-117).
Created in 1966, the Police Training Commission operates approved police training schools (Chapter 286, Acts of 1966). Subject to the authority of the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services, the Commission also prescribes standards for and certifies schools that offer police and security training. It may revoke a school's certification for cause. The Commission sets minimum qualifications for instructors and certifies qualified instructors for approved training schools. It verifies which officers have satisfactorily completed training programs, and issues diplomas (Code 1957, Art. 41, sec. 4-201).
The Police Training Commission consists of fourteen members. Eleven serve ex officio. The Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services, with the approval of the Governor and Senate advice and consent, appoints the remaining three members for three-year terms. With the approval of the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services, the Commission appoints the Executive Director (Code 1957, Art. 41, sec. 4-201).
The Commission has twelve members. Nine serve ex officio. With the approval of the Governor, the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services appoints three members for three-year terms. The Commission appoints the Executive Director with the Secretary's approval (Code Correctional Services Article, secs. 8-201 through 8-210).
6776 Reisterstown Road, Suite 311B
The Office of Minority Business Enterprise and Equal Opportunity started in 1989. The Office establishes and maintains equality of opportunity within the Department. In addition, the Office assures the Department's compliance with civil rights laws, mandates, and regulations, including the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the Veterans' Rights Act, and the Ethics Law.
The Division of Parole and Probation was created in 1939 to administer State parole and probation laws (Chapter 406, Acts of 1939). In 1953, the Division was renamed the Department of Parole and Probation (Chapter 653, Acts of 1953). The Department in 1968 separated from the Board of Parole (later the Maryland Parole Commission) (Chapter 457, Acts of 1968). In 1970, the Department reorganized as the Division of Parole and Probation (Chapter 401, Acts of 1970).
The Division supervises the conduct of parolees and adult probationers and conducts investigations for the Maryland Parole Commission, the courts, and the Governor.
The work of the Division is organized under two bureaus: Administrative Services, and Field Operations. The Division also is responsible for the Drinking-Driver Monitor Program.
The Drinking-Driver Monitor Program began in 1983. The Program requires that drivers suffering from alcoholism participate in substance-abuse education or treatment. They also must learn to refrain from driving while under the influence of alcohol or controlled dangerous substances.
The Bureau of Administrative Services provides fiscal, administrative, training, technical and personnel services to the Division of Parole and Probation and its field operations.
The Bureau of Field Operations was initiated in 1978 to decentralize the statewide administration of parole and probation services. Under the Bureau are the Correctional Options Program, four regional offices, the Case Monitoring Unit, and the Interstate Compact Unit.
The Case Monitoring Unit began in June 1994, when it assumed duties previously performed by the field offices. The Unit monitors inactive cases, where the serving of parole or probation is delayed for reasons such as incarceration for a previous crime. Once an inmate is available to serve parole or to be placed on probation, the Unit alerts the field office to supervise the parolee or probationer.
The Interstate Compact Unit coordinates activities resulting from the Interstate Compact for Supervision of Parolees and Probationers. The Compact is an agreement among the fifty states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Its primary purpose is to provide a systematic way for transferring eligible parolees and probationers from one jurisdiction to another, usually for rehabilitation. At the same time, public safety must be maintained and the instructions of the sentencing court ensured. Each receiving state visits and supervises probationers and parolees of the sending state and is governed in those duties by the same standards that prevail for its own probationers and parolees. Eligible offenders usually have family or responsible friends residing in the receiving state. Before granting permission to transfer parolees and probationers, the receiving state is given an opportunity to investigate the offender's intended residence and prospective employment.
Started in March 1994, the Correctional Options Program supervises community programs that are alternatives to incarceration in the metropolitan Baltimore area. These include home detention, drug court, day reporting, boot camps, intensive parole supervision, a regimented offender treatment center, and a re-entry aftercare facility.
Regional Offices of Criminal Supervision began as Offices of Regional Operations in 1980. They reorganized under their present name in 1994. Four regional offices administer the supervision of probationers and parolees by agents assigned to some forty field offices.
Operations oversees the Division of Pretrial Detention and Services, the Division of Correction, and Patuxent Institution.
401 East Eager St.
300 East Madison St.
The Center uses the Automated Booking System, designed to become a statewide criminal justice information network. Currently, six counties and the Center are part of the System. With uniform data entries, the System quickly identifies a detainee, and any previous criminal history or outstanding arrest warrants.
Mitchell Courthouse, Room 508
The Division of Correction administers State correctional facilities. The Division is responsible for Administration and Special Programs; Inmate Programs; Security Operations; the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic, and Classification Center; the Maryland Correctional Pre-Release System; State Use Industries; and ten State prisons:
The Commissioner of Correction is appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services with the approval of the Governor and Senate advice and consent (Code Correctional Services Article, secs. 3-202 through 3-207).
Administration and Special Programs is responsible for Data Services, Human Resources, Policy Review and Publications, and Training.
Established in 1963, the Work Release Program permits certain prisoners to leave confinement for work at gainful employment in the community (Chapter 285, Acts of 1963). They return to the institution at the end of the work day. In 1968, this privilege was extended for attending school (Chapter 551, Acts of 1968). Under certain conditions, the Commissioner of Correction may authorize special leave for prisoners to seek employment or participate in special community rehabilitation programs. Weekend leaves also may be granted under certain conditions (Code Correctional Services Article, secs. 3-801 through 3-811).
Inmate Programs directs five units: Case Management; Commitment; Correctional Education; Inmate Affairs; and Religious and Volunteer Services.
Under Security Operations are Adjustment Hearings, Emergency Preparedness and Inventory Standards, Facilities Security, Housing Coordination, the Investigative Unit, and the K-9 Unit.
550 East Madison St.
The Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center began in June 1967 as a reception center in the south wing of the Maryland Penitentiary (Chapter 695, Acts of 1967). At its present location, the Center opened in October 1981. Here, male inmates diagnostically are evaluated, classified, and assigned to an institution of the Division of Correction. A maximum-security facility, the seven-story Center has a rated capacity of 400 inmates (Code 1957, Art. 27, secs. 689(g)-700(a)).
954 Forrest St.
Metropolitan Transition Center (formerly Maryland Penitentiary), Forrest St., Baltimore, Maryland, January 2000. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
The Metropolitan Transition Center is Maryland's oldest State prison. It was first named the Maryland Penitentiary. Authorized in 1804, the Maryland Penitentiary opened in 1811 (Resolution no. 32, Acts of 1804). In February 1998, the Penitentiary was reorganized as the Metropolitan Transition Center. The Center now incarcerates short-term offenders where previously it had held those long-term prisoners requiring maximum security.
As the Maryland Penitentiary, the major portion of the Center's physical plant was built in 1894. A south wing was completed in 1899. The most recent additions were made in 1956. Then, the old administration building and one of the original cell houses were replaced by a sixty-bed general hospital for men in the correctional system.
A maximum-security section to confine prisoners under sentence of death and an execution chamber were erected in 1956. Executions ceased in Maryland from June 1961 to May 1994. By statute, in 1994, the method of execution was changed from lethal gas to lethal injection (Chapter 5, Acts of 1994).
The Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center opened in 1989 under jurisdiction of the Maryland Penitentiary. In October 1997, the Center was made an independent unit under the Division of Correction.
The Center is a maximum-security prison for men. Located across the street from the Maryland Penitentiary, it functions as a satellite of the Penitentiary, housing the most violent criminals. The Center, known as Supermax, is designed to hold 288 prisoners, one to a cell.
Hagerstown, MD 21746 - 3333
Hagerstown, MD 21746 - 4444
The Roxbury Correctional Institution is a 721-bed medium-security prison for men. It opened in 1980 as the Roxbury Emergency Housing Unit with a 128-bed capacity at the Maryland Correction Institution-Hagerstown. As a separate facility, the Roxbury Correctional Institution opened in December 1983.
A medium-security prison in Allegany County, Western Correctional Institution opened July 13, 1996. It is designed to house 1,296 inmates with some 450 staff. Based on prototypes of the facilities at the Maryland House of Correction Annex in Jessup, housing consists of a 144-cell unit and three 192-cell units. Two of these units, along with support services, basic site work, utilities, and perimeter security were completed in 1996. The facility opened with the capacity to house 768 inmates. The remaining housing units were completed in 1997.
Maryland House of Correction Road
Jessup, MD 20794 - 0534
The Maryland House of Correction is the second oldest prison in the State. As Maryland's only maximum-security prison, it confines male prisoners sentenced to long terms. Authorized in 1874 and opened in 1879, it also is a medium-security institution for men serving sentences of three months or longer (Chapter 233, Acts of 1874). The prison is situated on 800 acres south of MD Route 175 between U.S. Route 1 and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in both Anne Arundel and Howard counties.
Jessup, Maryland 20794 - 0534
Opened in October 1991, the Maryland House of Correction Annex is a maximum-security facility, adjacent to the Maryland House of Correction. Formerly part of the Maryland House of Correction, the Annex was made a separate institution in February 1999.
The Annex consists of five housing units, each holding 192 cells. Designed for double bunks, these units include the statewide protective custody unit. The Annex also holds a segregation housing unit of 144 cells where inmates are isolated from the general prison population either as punishment, or voluntarily for their own protection. A support services building houses the dining room, education and vocational training, and medical services.
Maryland House of Correction Road (off Route 175)
Jessup, MD 20794 - 0549
The Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup opened in 1981 as an annex to the Maryland House of Correction. Now a separate facility, the Institution still shares certain services with the House of Correction. The Institution is a medium-security prison with a rated capacity of 512 male inmates serving sentences of three months or longer.
Jessup, MD 20794 - 0535
In November 1999, the Baltimore Pre-Release Unit for Women came under the Institution's jurisdiction.
The Baltimore Pre-Release Unit for Women began in July 1975 as the Community Corrections Center for Women. In 1978, the Center was renamed the Pre-Release Unit for Women and placed under jurisdiction of the Maryland Correctional Pre-Release System (Code 1957, Art. 27, secs. 706-710E). The Unit moved from 4500 Park Heights Avenue to its present site in July 1991. At that time, it was renamed Baltimore Pre-Release Unit for Women. The facility has a capacity for 100 inmates.
4500 Park Heights Ave.
With a capacity for 36 inmates, the Annex opened in November 1993 at the former site of the Baltimore Pre-Release Unit for Women.
Westover, MD 21890 - 0500
Located in central Somerset County, the Eastern Correctional Institution opened in 1987. The Institution is a medium- and maximum-security prison for men. It has a rated capacity of 1,440 inmates.
Westover, MD 21890 - 3368
In September 1993, the Minimum Security Compound opened as the Eastern Correctional Institution Annex. It is a 420-bed minimum-security facility under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Correctional Institution. The Compound consists of three housing units, one support building, and an outside recreation area. It is outside the secure perimeter of the Eastern Correctional Institution compound.
Quantico, MD 21856 - 0014
Poplar Hill Pre-Release Unit was created in 1950. Formerly under the Maryland Correctional Pre-Release System, the Poplar Hill Pre-Release Unit became part of Eastern Correctional Institution in November 1997.
Originally, the Unit provided inmate labor to the highway departments of Wicomico, Dorchester, Somerset and Worcester counties. Now, inmates at Poplar Hill provide public services through contracts with the State Highway Administration, Deer's Head Center, the Department of Natural Resources, and local governments. In a renovated farm house on the premises, educational and employment readiness programs are conducted. Vocational programming is available through contract with the Somerset County Board of Education. Pre-release programming includes work release and family leave.
7930 Brockbridge Road
Jessup, MD 20794 - 0537
The Maryland Correctional Pre-Release System operates units that provide work and other rehabilitation for men and women. System facilities mainly house inmates in the Work Release Program. Before assignment to a pre-release unit, inmates are screened carefully at the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center or at the institutions to which they are assigned.
Within the System are Brockbridge Correctional Facility (a medium-security institution), the Home Detention Unit, and three minimum-security units: Jessup Pre-Release Unit, Herman L. Toulson Correctional Boot Camp, and Baltimore City Correctional Center. The System also is responsible for four pre-release units: Baltimore Pre-Release Unit, Central Laundry Pre-Release Unit, Southern Maryland Pre-Release Unit, and Eastern Pre-Release Unit.
Minimum-security pre-release units originated in 1955 as work camps (Chapter 266, Acts of 1955). Later, they became known as correctional camps (Code 1957, Art. 27, sec. 689(f)). In 1972, the camps were renamed community correctional centers (Chapter 464, Acts of 1972). Four years later, they reorganized as community adult rehabilitation centers (Chapter 234, Acts of 1976). The centers transferred to the Correctional Pre-Release System in July 1978, and were renamed pre-release units in September 1978.
The Brockbridge Correctional Facility originated as Sandy Point Correctional Camp. In 1966, the Camp relocated to Jessup as the Maryland Correctional Camp Center (Chapter 385, Acts of 1966). Renamed Brockbridge Correctional Facility, the Center was converted to a medium-security facility in 1979.
Jessup, MD 20794 - 0536
2001 Toulson Road
Jessup, MD 20794 - 1425
The former Jessup Pre-Release Unit became the Herman L. Toulson Correctional Boot Camp in August 1990. The Camp was named after Herman L. Toulson, Jr., a correctional officer who was stabbed by an inmate in the south wing of the Maryland Penitentiary on October 6, 1984.
With a capacity for 250 inmates, the Baltimore City Correctional Center opened in July 1984 as part of the Maryland Correctional Pre-Release System. The Center houses male prisoners who require minimum security.
920 North Forrest St.
926 Greenmount Ave.
In 1990, the General Assembly authorized the Home Detention Program (Chapter 414, Acts of 1990). Started in January 1991, the Program allows carefully selected inmates to serve the last part of their sentences in the community. Inmates are monitored by an electronic anklet, periodic telephone voice-verification, and random visits by correctional staff. The Unit operates 24 hours a day, seven days per week, to enforce inmate compliance and provide rehabilitation services. The Program began with 40 inmates in Fiscal Year 1991 and, as of September 1, 1999, has served 19,200 inmates. Parolees and persons awaiting trial also are eligible for home detention.
Sykesville, MD 21784 - 0394
The Central Laundry Facility formed in 1960 to serve the laundry needs of institutions under what is now the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Located at Springfield Hospital Center, the Unit also takes care of laundry for institutions of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Department of Juvenile Justice. The Unit is a minimum-security institution.
Charlotte Hall, MD 20622 - 0159
Church Hill, MD 21623 - 0122
Eastern Pre-Release Unit opened in 1964 in Queen Anne's County. The Unit can house 180 male inmates in open-style dormitories. Educational, vocational, employment and release readiness programs are available to the prisoners as are recreational, religious and addictions programs.
State Use Industries was established under the Board of Correction in 1937 (Chapter 213, Acts of 1937). In 1970, the program was placed within the Division of Correction. The program was designed to provide essential work and training for prisoners and to produce needed goods for State government with inmate labor.
At a cost that does not exceed the prevailing average market price, State Use Industries supplies services and produces goods. These are used by municipal, county, State and federal institutions or agencies and those of other states. They also are available to any charitable, civic, educational, fraternal or religious association, institution, or agency for its own use and not for resale to others within one year of purchase (Code Correctional Services Article, secs. 3-501 through 3-528).
State Use Industries works through five divisions: Fiscal Services; Marketing; Operations; Personnel; and Sales. The agency is aided by the State Use Industries Management Council.
The State Use Industries Management Council originated in 1981 as the State Use Industries Advisory Committee (Chapter 661, Acts of 1981). In 1999, it reorganized under its present name (Chapter 324, Acts of 1999). The Council recommends the establishment and maintenance of industrial plants and service centers within the Division of Correction to implement State Use Industries programs. Operated primarily with inmates, sites are run in a manner that benefits the State and provides training for inmates.
The Customer Council formed in 1999 to advise the General Manager of State Use Industries (Chapter 324, Acts of 1999). The Council includes representatives of government agencies, and three members appointed by the Governor. Consisting of eleven members, the Council is chaired by the General Manager (Code Correctional Services Article, secs. 3-524 through 3-528).
Jessup, MD 20794 - 7555
Patuxent Institution treats and rehabilitates eligible male and female prisoners who are mentally disordered or physically impaired, including some chronic youthful offenders. The Institution offers medical, psychiatric, psychological and social casework services, as well as academic, vocational, recreational and religious services. Treatment also is provided for individuals on pre-parole and parole status.
The Institutional Board of Review for Patuxent Institution was created in 1951 (Chapter 476, Acts of 1951). The Board was reorganized and renamed as the Board of Review in 1989 (Chapter 6, Acts of 1989).
319 West Monument St.
Reisterstown Road, Suite 307
The Commission's eight members are appointed to six-year terms by the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services with the Governor's approval and Senate advice and consent. With the Governor's approval, the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services names the chair (Code Correctional Services Article, secs. 7-201 through 7-208).