The average population for fiscal year 1963 was 196.
Appropriations 1963 1964

General Funds .................................... $132,638 $131,474
Special Funds .................................... 9,000

Total ..................................................... $132,638 $140,474
Staff: 29 (General Funds Budget).

PATUXENT INSTITUTION
Board of Patuxent Institution
Chairman: Franklin G. Allen, 1965

Robert H. Roy, Dean, The Johns Hopkins School of Engineering,
1964; Manfred S. Guttmacher, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry,
University of Maryland Medical School, 1965; Rev. Robert T.
Newbold, Jr., 1966; G. Kenneth Reiblich, Professor of Consti-
tutional Law, University of Maryland School of Law, 1967.

Harold M. Boslow, M.D., Director

Col. William J. E. Keish, Associate Director (Superintendent)

Jessup, Howard County Telephone: 301 799-3400

Patuxent Institution, authorized by Chapter 476, Acts of 1951, was
formally opened on January 3, 1955 under the administrative control
of the Department of Correction. By Chapter 628, Acts of 1961, the
Institution became an autonomous agency of the State under the con-
trol of the Board of Patuxent Institution. This Board consists of a
Chairman and four associate members, all appointed by the Governor
with the advice and consent of the Senate for four-year terms. By
law, two of the members of this Board must be chosen from the
membership of the Advisory Board for Defective Delinquents, and of
these, one must be a psychiatrist. The Board determines institution
policy concerning the management, control, and supervision of the
institution and has full power to make, repeal, or amend any rule
or regulation for the operation, discipline, and administration of the
Institution.

The Director is the chief administrative officer of the Institution.
He must be a trained, able, and competent psychiatrist with at least
five years' experience in the practice of teaching of psychiatry.
There are three Associate Directors, two of whom must be trained
psychiatrists with at least three years' experience in the practice of
teaching of psychiatry; the third is charged, under the Director, with
the custodial duties of the institution.

Patuxent Institution is charged with the responsibility for the con-
finement and treatment, when appropriate, of adult criminal offend-
ers classified as defective delinquents under Article 31 B of the Mary-
land Code. It is also charged with the confinement and diagnosis of
offenders referred to the Institution by the Courts for determination
of their condition under that statute. The Institution conducts a thor-
ough psychiatric evaluation of each offender so referred and renders
a formal opinion to the Court of jurisdiction. Should the Institution
recommend against continued confinement at the Institution, the
Court returns the offender to the correctional system institution from
whence he came. If the Institution recommends that the offender be
confined at the Institution, the Court promptly provides a hearing;
sitting as a Court or with a Jury, as the defendant may choose, and
must find by a special verdict whether or not the offender is a de-
fective delinquent as defined in Article 31B. A defective delinquent