Dismas House, Inc., 101 South Mount
St., Baltimore 21223. This unit is privately
operated through contract with the State.
Montgomery County Pre-Release Center,
11500 Huff Court, Kensington 20795. State
contracts for housing community correction
inmates.
O'Brien House, 521 E. Eager Street, Bal-
timore 21202.
Community Correction Center for Wom-
en, 4500 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore
21207.
Community Correction Pre-Release Cen-
ter, 401 E. Eager Street, Baltimore 21202.
This unit is located on the 4th floor of the
Women's Detention Center, Baltimore City
Jail and leased by the State from the City
Jail.
DIVISION OF CORRECTION
Mark A. Levine, Commissioner of
Correction
J. Brown Hardy, Deputy Commissioner of
Correction
6314 Windsor Mill Road,
Baltimore 21207 Telephone: 944-7028
Prior to 1916, the Maryland Penitentiary
and the Maryland House of Correction were
autonomous institutions operating under the
jurisdiction of a separate Board of Directors
and a Board of Managers appointed by the
Governor. By Chapter 556, Acts of 1916,
these institutions 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superseded the Board of Prison Control and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 for-
merly been vested in the Board of Welfare.
By Chapter 758, Acts of 1953, the Su-
perintendent of Prisons became the adminis-
trator of the Department. The Board of
Correction established 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, 1976 Repl. Vol., Art. 27, sees. 667,
669-71, 675, 677). The 1962 General As-
sembly repealed Article 27, Sections 667-
710, of the 1957 Code and 1961 Supple-
ment and enacted new Sections 667 to 704,
inclusive, to revise and change the laws gov-
erning the administration of the Department
of Correction. Chapter 123 of the Acts of
1962 established the Advisory Board and
created the office of Commissioner of Cor-
rection. Chapter 137, Acts of 1968 repealed
and re-enacted Sec. 667 of Article 27,
changing the name of the Department from
the Department of Correction to the De-
partment of Correctional Services.
Chapter 401, Acts of 1970, effective July
1, 1970, incorporated all of the State's cor-
rectional responsibilities under the Depart-
ment of Public Safety and Correctional Serv-
ices. Thus, by virtue of this Act, the De-
partment of Correctional Services was re-
titled and reestablished as the Division of
Correction and continued as the same de-
partment in its capacity of exercising central
administrative control over the adult correc-
tional facilities in Maryland as provided in
Art. 27, Sections 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 Proba-
tion, and the Advisory Council for Correc-
tional Services (Code 1957, 1971 Repl.
Vol., Art 41, sees. 204D and 204E).
In accordance with the provisions of
Chapter 401, Acts of 1970, the Commis-
sioner 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 Commissioner is in sole
and active charge of the Division of Correc-
tion and of its several institutions and agen-
cies, subject only to his responsibility to the
Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional
Services and to the Governor (Code 1957,
1976 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 |
