The Maryland State Reformatory for Women was established by
Chapter 71, Acts of 1941 as the "Women's Prison of the State of
Maryland" and received its present name by Chapter 520, Acts of
1945. Before this institution was erected, female prisoners were lodged
in a section of the Maryland House of Correction; and prior to the
opening of the House of Correction in 1879, they had been housed in
quarters reserved for them at the Maryland Penitentiary. Adult
females who have been convicted of felonies or misdemeanors, and
have been sentenced to confinement in a correctional institution other
than a jail are committed to the Reformatory for Women. At the
present time approximately three-quarters of the inmates are serving
indeterminate sentences, and the remainder have definite sentences.

A Sewing Shop is conducted as a State Use Industries activity.
The institution has approximately ten acres under cultivation by the
inmates, and the agricultural products are used in the Reformatory
for Women.
The average population for fiscal year 1960 was 154.

Appropriations 1961 1962

General Funds $395,839 $383,877
Special Funds . 3,450 6,361

Totals . $399,289 $390,238
Staff: 70 (as allowed in the General Funds Budget)

I State Use Industries Funds.

CORRECTIONAL CAMPS
T. Howard Metzger, Director
301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone: 837-9000

The Department of Correction operates five Correctional Camps
each of which provides work and other rehabilitative facilities for
the men transferred to these minimum security installations subse-
quent to classification and careful screening at the institutions to
which they had originally been committed. Four of these camps op-
erate under one budget, and the fifth, the Central Laundry-Correc-
tional Camp, has its own budget. These camps were established by
Chapter 266, Acts of 1955:

Old Point Correctional Camp, Chester, Queen Anne's County
Poplar Hill Correctional Camp, Quantico, Wicomico County
Sandy Point Correctional Camp, Sandy Point, Anne Arundel County
Southern Maryland Correctional Camp, Hughesville, Charles County

Prisoners assigned to these Camps are employed on projects of the
State Roads Commission, other State departments and agencies, and
local governmental agencies,

The average (total) population of these Camps for fiscal year 1960
was 356.

Appropriations 1961 1962

General Funds $129,802 $199,658
Special Funds 870,000 300,000

Totals $499,802 $499,658
Staff: 60 (as allowed in General Funds Budget)