page_title: Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking south across Madison St. in Baltimore at the Chesapeake Detention Facility, formerly the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center.
context_page_description: The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is a government agency of the State of Maryland that performs a number of functions, including the operation of state prisons. It has its headquarters in Towson, Maryland, an unincorporated community that is also the seat of Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, located north of Maryland's largest city of Baltimore. Additional offices for correctional institutions supervision are located on Reisterstown Road in northwest Baltimore.
context_section_description: Baltimore City Correctional Center, Baltimore (operating capacity 500 inmates)
  Baltimore City Detention Center (formerly historic Baltimore City Jail - established and constructed 1801, re-constructed 1858-1859, gutted, re-constructed and added wings, 1959-1965)
  Baltimore County Detention Center (formerly historic Baltimore County Jail)
  Baltimore Pre-Release Unit, Baltimore (capacity 201)
  Brockbridge Correctional Facility - Jessup
  Chesapeake Detention Facility (previously the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center - also formerly known as "Super Max") - Baltimore (leased to U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Prisons for detention of federal prisoners)
  Eastern Correctional Institution - Princess Anne, Somerset County
  Eastern Pre-Release Unit - Princess Anne, Somerset County (capacity 180)
  Maryland Correctional Institution - Hagerstown (constructed mid-1930s as third institution and initially served as penal farm)
  Jessup Correctional Institution - Jessup
  Maryland Correctional Institution - Jessup, Jessup
  Maryland Correctional Institution for Women - Jessup
  Maryland Correctional Training Center - Hagerstown (capacity 2800)
  Metropolitan Transition Center - Baltimore (formerly historic Maryland Penitentiary, established 1811)
  North Branch Correctional Institution - Cumberland, opened 2003 (capacity 1399)
  Patuxent Institution - Jessup
  Poplar Hill Pre-Release Unit (capacity 180)
  Roxbury Correctional Institution - Hagerstown
  Southern Maryland Pre-Release Unit (capacity 180)
  Western Correctional Institution - Cumberland (adjacent to North Branch Correctional Institution, opened in the early 1980s)
caption: Chesapeake Detention Facility on East Madison Street, east of The Fallsway across from the old historic Maryland Penitentiary and the adjacent Baltimore City Jail / Baltimore City Detention Center in Baltimore, (formerly "SuperMax").
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