education. The institution has the 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 institu-
tions. A cannery, metal shop, brush shop and bookbindery are also
operated as State Use Industries. Other inmates are employed on
Public Works projects. The average population of the Reformatory
for the fiscal year 1952 was 741 (Code 1951, Art. 27, sees. 760-763).

Appropriations 1953 1954
General Fund $824,899 $872,341
Special Fund 93,765

Total $824,899 $966,106
Staff: 134.

MARYLAND STATE REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN

Alice M. Blum, Superintendent
Jessups (Anne Arundel County) Telephone: Elkridge 442

The Maryland State Reformatory for Women was established in
1941 as the Women's Prison and the name was changed in 1945. All
women convicted of either felonies or misdemeanors, who are sen-
tenced 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 im-
posed shall be of a definite or an indeterminate length. Of the 167
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. The average population
for the fiscal year 1952 was 167 (Code 1951, Art. 27, sees. 764-767).

Appropriations 1953 1954
General Fund $220,598 $227,896
Staff: 33.

PATUXENT INSTITUTION

Jessups (Anne Arundel County)

The Patuxent Institution was authorized by the General Assembly
of 1951. The Director of the Institution, who shall also be the Chief
Psychiatrist of the Department of Correction, shall be a competent
psychiatrist with at least five years experience. He shall be appointed.
by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, from a
list of nominees submitted by a special committee composed of the
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland Medical
School, the Professor of Psychiatry of the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine and the Chairman of the Board of Correction.
He shall hold office during good behavior and may be removed only
after charges have been preferred against him.

The Institution is for the custody of psychopathic delinquents com-
mitted by the courts or transferred to it by the Board of Correction.
All sentences to the institution shall be of an indeterminate nature.
Also to be established at the institution is a Diagnostic Center, not