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Wood, 1970; L. Whiting Farinholt, Jr., Professor of Law in Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Law, 1971. Harold M. Boslow, M.D., Director Col. William J. E. Keish, Associate Director (Superintendent) Jessup (Howard County) 20794 Telephone: 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, tinder 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 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 is defined as "an individual who, by the demonstration of persistent aggravated antisocial or criminal behavior, evidences a propensity toward criminal activity, and who is found to have either such intel- lectual deficiency or emotional unbalance, or both, as to clearly dem- onstrate an actual danger to society so as to require such confinement and treatment, when appropriate, as may make it reasonably safe for society to terminate the confinement and treatment." Sentences under Article 31B are for indeterminate duration, subject to the order of the Institutional Board of Review or the Courts. The Institution offers complete medical, psychiatric, psychological, and social casework serv- ices. In addition the institution is equipped and staffed for complete academic, vocational, recreational, and religious service. In addition to patient care, the Institution carries on extensive re- search studies concerning treatment, diagnosis, education, and related studies. |
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