The Commission studies the problems of the aging in order to
promote their welfare in every manner possible. It cooperates with,
and receives the cooperation of, other State agencies. It must report
to the Governor and the General Assembly each year (Code 1957, Art.
70B).

Appropriations 1961 1962

General Funds. $25,000 $37,500
Staff: 3.

Correctional Agencies

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION

Board of Correction

Chairman: G. C. A. Anderson, 1963

Ex officio member: Paul C. Wolman, Chairman, Board of

Parole and Probation

Appointed members: Margaret M. Dudley, 1962; Angelo Schiadaressi,
1962; Bay S. Gould, 1963; John T. King, M.D.,
1963; Joseph H. Rash, 1963; William H. Reisner, Jr., 1963.

James W. Curran, Superintendent of Prisons
Alice J. Ford, Secretary, Board of Correction

301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone: 837-9000

Prior to 1916, the Maryland Penitentiary and the Maryland House
of Correction were autonomous institutions operating under the juris-
diction of a separate Board of Directors and a Board of Managers
appointed by the Governor. By Chapter 556, Acts of 1916, these insti-
tutions were administered by the State Board of Prison Control. By
Chapter 29, Acts of 1922, the Board of Welfare superseded the Board
of Prison Control and administered the prisons. By Chapter 69, Acts
of 1939, the Department of Correction and the Board of Correction
assumed all rights, powers, and duties which had formerly been vested
in the Board of Welfare.

By Chapter 758, Acts of 1953, the Superintendent of Prisons became
the administrator of the Department. He is appointed by the Board of
Correction with the approval of the Governor and the consent of the
Senate. The Board of Correction consists of a Chairman and six asso-
ciate members, at least one of whom must be a woman, and the
Chairman of the Board of Parole and Probation as an ex officio
member. The members are appointed for four-year terms. They estab-
lish departmental policies and appoint the executive personnel of the
Department's institutions on the recommendations made by the Super-
intendent of Prisons (Code 1957, Art. 27, sees. 667, 669-71, 675, 677;
Art. 31B, sees. 3, 4).

The Department of Correction staff plan, establish, and direct pro-
grams of administration for the various institutions. These, in turn,
carry on a program of classification, education and vocational train-
ing, employment, and the other segments of rehabilitative treatment.
The institutions have well-developed programs of employment. In-
mates and prisoners are assigned to a wide variety of institutional
maintenance tasks, to farming and dairying activities, and to work
in the Department of Correction's highly diversified State Use Indus-
tries Program which presents opportunities for the development and
reactivation of useful and economically profitable occupational skills,