Henry Russell Raymond, Superintendent
Breathedsville Telephone: Breathedsville 2800.

The Maryland State Reformatory for Males was established in 1945
at the penal institution originally established as the State Penal Farm
in 1931. The Reformatory is a minimum security institution..

Male offenders from 16 to 25 are committed to the Reformatory by
the Courts for an indeterminate sentence. While primarily for youth-
ful offenders, the Board of Correction may transfer prisoners of any
age from the House of Correction or the Penitentiary to the Re-
formatory. The Board may also transfer incorrigible and unmanage-
able inmates of the Reformatory to other institutions..

The Reformatory conducts an educational program with regular
classes in basic education as well as in vocational and industrial arts
education. The institution has the part-time services of a psychologist
to aid in the classification and examination of those committed.
Located on an 875 acre farm, a dairy cattle herd is maintained which
supplies dairy products to the Reformatory as well as to other state
institutions. A cannery is also operated. The average population of
the Reformatory is 750 (Code 1989 and 1947 Supp. Art. 27, secs.
758-760A)..

1948 1949
Appropriations $482,622 $482,680
Staff: 106..

MARYLAND STATE REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN.

Helen De Corse McArthur, Superintendent
Jessups Telephone: Elkridge 442.

The Maryland State Reformatory for Women was established in
1941. All women convicted of either felonies or misdemeanors, who
are sentenced to confinement by a Court or a Justice of the Peace
to any institution other than a jail, are confined at the Reformatory.
It is within the discretion of the Court as to whether the sentence
imposed shall be of a definite or an indeterminate length. Of the 180
women now confined, approximately one half are serving indetermi-
nate sentences. A sewing shop is operated as a unit of the State
Use Industries. Approximately ten acres of garden have been devel-
oped by the women for the institutional table (Code 1939 and 1947
Supp. Art. 27, sec. 761A-761c)..

1948 1949
Appropriations . . . .......... .. ..$121,436 $123,720
Staff: 27..