Prior to the erection of this institution, 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 Maryland Institution for
Women. At the present time, more than three-quarters of the inmates
are serving indeterminate sentences, and the remainder have definite
sentences.

Agricultural products, derived from the cultivation (by inmates) of
approximately ten acres of land, are used by the institution. A sewing
shop is conducted as a State Use Industries activity.
The average population for fiscal year 1963 was 191.

Appropriations 1963 1964

General Funds $419,736 $432,650
Special Funds 7,754 7,643

Totals $427,490 $440,293
Staff: 73 (General Funds Budget)
I (State Use Industries Funds).

CORRECTIONAL CAMPS
T. Howard Metzger, Director
301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore 1 Telephone: 837-9000

Old Point Correctional Gamp, 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
Central Laundry Correctional Camp, Sykesville, Carroll County

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 subsequent to
classification and careful screening at the institutions to which they
had originally been committed. These camps were established by
Chapter 266, Acts of 1955. (Code 1957, 1962 Supp., Art. 27, sec. 689f).

Four of these camps (Old Point, Poplar Hill, Sandy Point, and
Southern Maryland) operate under one budget. Prisoners assigned to
these camps are employed on projects of the State Roads Commission,
farming operations, and by other State departments and local gov-
ernmental agencies.

The average (total) population of these Camps for fiscal year
1963 was 486.

Appropriations 1963 1964

General Funds . $363,563 $402,557
Special Funds 284,000 247,000

Totals $647,563 $649,537
Staff: 73 (General Funds Budget).

Central Laundry Correctional Camp

This combined laundry and correctional camp operation was es-
tablished in July, 1960 to serve the laundry needs of institutions
under the jurisdiction of the Department of Mental Hygiene.