Opinion ID: 2267996
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Heading: Family Leave

Text: Section 3-811 of the Correctional Services Article grants authority to the Commissioner to grant family leave. That section provides in part: (a) In general. The Commissioner or Commissioner's designee may grant family leave to allow an inmate to visit the inmate's family for a reasonable time if the inmate:

(3) is recommended by the correctional facility's case management team and managing official. Until June 2, 1993, when the Commissioner declared all life-sentenced inmates ineligible for family leave, inmates serving life sentences who had met the conditions of Section 3-811 and the other criteria of the DOC could receive family leave. On April 15, 1997, DOC issued DCD 100-543, which stated that [i]nmates serving life sentences, including life with all but a portion suspended, and inmates under a sentence of death are not eligible for family leave consideration.