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The Division of Correction, operates six minimum security pre- release facilities, which provide work and other rehabilitative facilities for the men transferred to these minimum security installations, The Correctional Camps also house inmates who are participating in the Work Release Program. Before assignment to a Correctional Camp, the inmates are care- fully screened either at the Reception-Diagnostic and Classification Center or at the institutions to which they had been originally com- mitted. These Camps were established by 'Chapter 266, Acts of 1955 (Code 1957, 1971 Repl, Vol., Art. 27, sec. 689f). The Sandy Point Correctional Camp was relocated at the Maryland Correctional Camp Center and the name was changed from Sandy Point Correctional Camp to Maryland Correctional Camp Center by Chapter 385, Acts of 1966. The Maryland Correctional Camp Center functions as the administrative headquarters for the Correctional Camp system as a receiving and distributing point for the Correc- tional Camp system and as a Correctional Camp. Four of these facilities (Maryland Correctional Camp Center, Eastern, Poplar Hill, and Southern Maryland) operate under one budget. Inmates assigned to these camps are employed on projects of the State Roads Commission, farming operations, and by other State departments and local governmental agencies. The average population of these Camps for fiscal year 1971 was 637. Appropriations 1971 1972 General Funds $1,807,676 $1,857,537 Staff: 192 (General Funds Budget). Central Laundry Correctional Camp This combined laundry and correctional camp operation was estab- lished 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 1970 was 175. Appropriations 1971 1972 General Funds $343,557 $390,892 Staff: 40 (General Funds Budget). DIVISION OF PAROLE AND PROBATION John M. Pettibone, Director Ralph S. Falconer, Assistant Director for Parole Services Norman H. Katz, Assistant Director for Field Services Stanley M. Waxman, Assistant Director for Administration Executive Plaza Two, Hunt Valley 21030 Telephone: 667-0700 The Division of Parole and Probation was originally established as the Department of Parole and Probation by Chapter 406, Acts of 1939 as the Division of Parole and Probation. By Chapter 653, Acts of 1953, the Division changed its name to the Department of Parole and Probation. The Division was further reorganized by Chapter 457, Acts of 1968, and adopted its present name by Chapter 401, Acts of 1970. The Division administers the parole and probation laws of the State and became an agency of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services on July 1, 1970. The head of the Division of Parole and Probation is the Director of Parole and Probation. He is appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services, with the approval of the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate and serves an indefinite term at the pleasure of the Secretary. |
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