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MARYLAND MANUAL 105 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. The average population for fiscal year 1964 was 201. Appropriations 1965 1966 General Funds $145,669 $149,728 Special Funds 14,400 15,900 Totals . $160,069 $165,628 Staff: 30 (General Funds Budget). PATUXENT INSTITUTION Board of Patuxent Institution Chairman: Franklin G. Allen, 1969 Rev. Robert T. Newbold, Jr., 1966; L. Whiting Farinholt, Jr., Professor of Law in Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Law, 1967; Robert H. Roy, Dean, The Johns Hopkins School of Engineering, 1968; Manfred S. Guttmacher, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland Medical School, 1969. Harold M. Boslow, M.D., Director Col. William J. E. Keish, Associate Director (Superintendent) Jessup (Howard County) 20794 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 31B 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 |
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