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164 MARYLAND MANUAL
diction of a separate Board of Directors and a Board of Managers
appointed by the Governor. By Chapter 556, Acts of 1916, these insti-
tutions were administered by the State Board of Prison Control. By
Chapter 29, Acts of 1922, the Board of Welfare superseded the Board
of Prison Control and administered the prisons. By Chapter 69, Acts
of 1939, the Department of Correction and the Board of Correction
assumed all rights, powers, and duties which had formerly been vested
in the Board of Welfare.
By Chapter 758, Acts of 1953, the Superintendent of Prisons became
the administrator of the Department. The Board of Correction estab-
lished departmental policies and appointed the executive personnel
of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the Department on the
recommendations made by the Superintendent of Prisons (Code 1957,
1971 Repl. Vol., Art. 27, sees. 667, 669-71, 675, 677). The 1962 General
Assembly repealed Article 27, Sections 667-710, of the 1957 Code and
1961 Supplement and enacted new Sections 667 to 704, inclusive, to
revise and change the laws governing the administration of the De-
partment of Correction. Chapter 123 of the Acts of 1962 established
the Advisory Board and created the office of Commissioner of Correc-
tion. Chapter 137, Acts of 1968 repealed and re-enacted Sec. 667 of
Article 27, changing the name of the Department from the Depart-
ment of Correction to the Department of Correctional Services.
Chapter 401, Acts of 1970, effective July 1, 1970, incorporated all
of the State's correctional responsibilities under the Department of
Public Safety and Correctional Services. Thus, by virtue of this Act,
the Department of Correctional Services was retitled and reestablished
as the Division of Correction and continued as the same department
in its capacity of exercising central administrative control over the
adult correctional facilities in Maryland as provided in Art. 27, Sec-
tions 667-726, subject to the authority of the Secretary of Public
Safety and Correctional Services. The same act also abolished the
Advisory Board of the Department of Correction, the Advisory Board
of the Division of Parole and Probation, and the Advisory Council
for Correctional Services (Code 1957, 1971 Repl. Vol., Art. 41, sees.
204D and 204E).
In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 401, Acts of 1970, the
Commissioner of Correction is appointed by the Secretary of Public
Safety and Correctional Services with the approval of the Governor
and by and with the consent and advice of the Senate. The Commis-
sioner is in sole and active charge of the Division of Correction and
of its several institutions and agencies, subject only to his responsi-
bility to the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services and
to the Governor (Code 1957, 1971 Repl. Vol., Art. 27, sees. 673-674).
The staff of the Division of Correction plans, establishes, and
directs programs of administration for the various correctional facili-
ties. The institutions carry on a program of classification, education
and vocational training, employment, and the other segments of re-
habilitative treatment.
Chapter 695, Acts of 1967 provided that all criminals sentenced after
June 1, 1967 be committed to the Division of Correction, formerly the
Department of Correctional Services and authorized the Department
to establish Receiving and Classification Centers for prisoners. On
June 1, 1967, the Department established a Reception Center at the
Maryland Penitentiary for male inmates and a Reception Center at
the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women—Jessup, for female
inmates. After diagnostic evaluation and classification, the inmate is
then assigned to one of the institutions of the Division (Code 1957,
1971 Repl. Vol., Art. 27, sees. 689 (g), 690, 691-700 (a), 701-702).

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