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of all general and specialized courses of study for
correctional officers as defined in the law; and to
consult and cooperate with other departments
and agencies of the State concerned with correc-
tional training.
The Commission consists of thirteen members
of whom ten are ex officio and three are ap-
pointed. The ex officio members are the Deputy
Secretary for Correctional Services, the Commis-
sioner of Correction, the Director of the Division
of Parole and Probation, the President of the
Maryland Community Correctional Administra-
tors Association, the President of the Maryland
Sheriffs Association, the President of the Mary-
land Probation, Parole and Corrections Associa-
tion, the Warden of the Baltimore City Jail, the
Attorney General of the State of Maryland, a
respresentative of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
appointed by its Director, and a President of a
college or university having a corrections curricu-
lum appointed by the Maryland State Board for
Higher Education. The Secretary of Public Safety
and Correctional Services, with the approval of
the Governor, appoints three correctional, parole,
or probation officers, each representing different
geographical regions of the State, for terms of
three years.
The Deputy Secretary for Correctional Services
is the chairperson of the Commission. The Com-
mission, with the approval of the Secretary of
Public Safety and Correctional Services, appoints
the Executive Director (Code 1957, Art. 41, sec.
70B).
COMMISSION ON CORRECTIONAL
STANDARDS
Ex officio members: Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney
General; J. Max Millstone, Secretary of General
Services; Constance Lieder, Secretary of Plan-
ning
Appointed members: Patricia Quann, 1981; David
M. Doxzen, 1982; Robert H. Fosen, 1982; Sa-
rah Ada Koonce, 1982; Calvin A. Lightfoot,
1982; J. Brown Hardy, 1983; Marie C. Hender-
son, 1983; Louis Hyatt, 1983.
4536 Harford Rd.
Baltimore 21214 Telephone: 321-3686
Chapter 535 of the Acts of 1980 created a
Commission on Correctional Standards within
the Department of Public Safety and Correctional
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Services. The Commission is composed of eleven
members appointed by the Governor with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate. Each member of
the Commission other than the ex officio mem-
bers serve terms of three years. The appointed
members consist of two Maryland citizens who
are not directly employed in the field of correc-
tions, one official or employee of the Commission
on Accreditation for Corrections or a similar na-
tional correctional accreditation organization, and
one local elected official.
The purpose of the Commission is to improve
the method of establishing standards for correc-
tional facilities and programs and ensuring the
compliance with such standards in order to better
protect the health, safety, and welfare of Mary-
land's citizens. The major duties and responsibili-
ties of the Commission are: to appoint, with the
approval of the Secretary of Public Safety and
Correctional Services, an executive director to
serve at its pleasure and to perform administra-
tive functions as directed; to employ such other
persons as may be necessary to carry out its func-
tions; to advise the Secretary regarding standards
for State and local correctional facilities, which he
is authorized to adopt; to provide technical assis-
tance to jurisdictions to the extent possible; to in-
spect facilities to determine compliance with ap-
plicable correctional standards; to determine
schedules for remedial action of jurisdictions in
noncompliance with certain standards; to hold
public hearings in accordance with the Adminis-
trative Procedures Act in regard to the possible
closing of a correctional facility or one of its ele-
ments for failure to meet certain standards; to is-
sue orders to cease operations of correctional pro-
cedures or functions of a correctional facility
determined, after a public hearing, to be in viola-
tion of certain standards; to review and act on
appeals of staff inspection reports; to adopt such
administrative rules and regulations as may be
reasonably necessary or appropriate to accom-
plish the purposes and objectives of the law; to
consult and coordinate with national bodies pro-
mulgating correctional standards for the purpose
of providing a reasonable compatibility between
State and nationally established standards; to
consult and cooperate with other State agencies
and local jurisdictions concerning correctional
standards; to establish advisory boards to assist;
and to perform other such acts as may be neces-
sary and appropriate.
The State Jail Programming and Inspection Of-
ficer and his staff, previously created under Arti-
cle 27, Sec. 704(a), are members of the staff to
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