sity 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 holds office during good behavior and
may be removed only after charges have been preferred against him.

An Associate Director, appointed by the Director, on recommenda-
tion of the Superintendent of Prisons, is in charge of administration
and custodial care of this institution.

The psychiatric work, as well as the psychological work, for all
institutions is under the direction of the Director of the Patuxent
Institution.

The institution is for the custody of defective delinquents and
emotional psychopaths committed by the courts or transferred to it
by the Board of Correction. All sentences from the Courts, after
diagnostic study, must be on an indeterminate basis with no maximum
limit.

Also to be established at the institution is a Diagnostic Center not
under the supervision of the Board of Correction.

An educational, industrial and vocational program is in process
of formation for this institution.

In connection with the Diagnostic Center, a psychiatric clinic
(which is a part of the Diagnostic Center) shall submit to the Courts
information which they desire; and this clinic and the Classification
Committee of the institution shall ascertain the time for releases of
inmates serving sentences within the institution. (Code 1951, Art.
31B).

Appropriations 1955 1956
General Fund ............................ $379,009 $629,927
Staff: 135.

DEPARTMENT OF PAROLE AND PROBATION

Chairman: Wallace Reidt, 1959
A. Earl Shipley, 1957; H. Hamilton Hackney, 1961
Wallace Reidt, Director
Ralph S. Falconer, Executive Secretary

506 Park Ave„ Baltimore 1 Telephone: Lexington 9-4620

The Department of Parole and Probation was established in 1963
succeeding the Division of Parole and Probation in the administration
of the parole and probation laws of the State. The Department is
headed by the Board of Parole and Probation. The Board consists
of a chairman and two associate members appointed by the Governor,
with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a term of six years,
providing that of those first appointed the Chairman shall serve for
six years, one associate member for four years and the other for two
years. The Chairman of the Board serves as director of the De-
partment. He may assign members of the board to administrative
and other duties as required.

The Board of Parole and Probation may upon the vote of two
of its members parole any person confined in the correctional insti-
tutions of the State who has served at least one-third of his term.
The Board may recommend to the Governor the paroling of individuals
serving life sentences but the Governor has sole jurisdiction over the
parole of such persons. The Board also controls the releases of