intendent of Prisons (Code 1957, Art. 27, sees. 667, 669-71, 675, 677;
Art. 31B, sees. 3, 4).

The Department operates the State Use Industries, which provide
employment for the prisoners in the various penal institutions. The
goods manufactured in State Use Industries shops are for sale to the
various agencies of the State of Maryland, the Federal Government,
the District of Columbia, and the states and territories of the United
States as well as to the political subdivisions thereof. Manufactured
products are also available to religious and charitable institutions
providing the goods are for their own use and not for resale. Besides
the State Use Industries, prisoners are employed in the public works
program of the State. Their earnings are credited to their respective
institutional accounts; they may make certain expenditures during
their incarceration, and the balance is payable to them upon release.

The Division of Classification and Education of the Department of
Correction supervises the collection and recording of all information
necessary to permit the proper classification of prisoners at each insti-
tution according to their abilities and to aid in their rehabilitation.
The Division also has educational functions.

The Department of Correction annually inspects the county jails in
Maryland and makes recommendations for their improvement (Code
1957, Art. 27, sec. 710).

Appropriations 1959 1960

General Funds $82,855 $84,242
Staff: 10 (as allowed in the General Funds Budget)

4 State Use Industries Funds
I Public Works Operations Funds

MARYLAND PENITENTIARY
Vernon L. Pepersack, Warden
954 Forrest Street, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Vernon 7-2135

The concept of a central penitentiary for an entire state was a
creation of eighteenth-century humanitarianism in America. For the
first time it was proposed that a penal institution should serve more
than a single county, town, or parish and that it should treat its
inmates, not as enemies of society to be punished, but as penitents to
be reformed. The General Assembly of Maryland, in 1804, appointed
a Commission to construct such an institution, but financial difficulties
delayed its completion until 1811. The Penitentiary was the second
institution of its type in the United States and has operated continu-
ously since the date of its opening. During its first 100 years, a Board
of Inspectors or a Board of Managers governed the Penitentiary. In
1917, it was placed under the newly established Board of Prison Con-
trol, now the Board of Correction.

The Penitentiary is a maximum security penal institution for long-
term offenders. All sentences of death are executed at the Penitentiary.

The Penitentiary has an education and training program, both voca-
tional and industrial. Prisoners work in the State Use Industries shops,
which provide practical vocational training. The following shops are
now operating: printing, auto tag, shoe manufacturing, woodworking,
brush manufacturing, sewing, mattress and upholstering, metal prod-
ucts, and knitting. A road camp operates out of the Penitentiary.

The average population of the Penitentiary for the fiscal year 1968
was 1,657.