were combined into one Board, known as
the Board of Patuxent Institution, which is
charged with providing general consultative
and advisory service to the staff of the In-
stitution and the Secretary of Public Safety
and Correctional Services on problems and
matters relating to its work. The Board of
Patuxent Institution consists of the profes-
sors of psychiatry at the Medical School of
the University of Maryland and the Johns
Hopkins Medical School, or their respective
designees, two sociologists or criminologists
from the faculty of the University of Mary-
land and the Johns Hopkins University, one
each being appointed by the respective pres-
idents of these two institutions, the full-
time professors of constitutional law at the
University of Maryland School of Law and
the University of Baltimore School of Law,
as designated by the respective dean of each
institution, the Director of Parole and Pro-
bation, the Commissioner of Correction,
two practicing members of the Maryland
bar, with at least five years experience in
the trial of civil or criminal cases, and six
additional members. All members of the
Board of Patuxent Institution are appointed
by the Secretary of Public Safety and Cor-
rectional Services, with the approval of the
Governor and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, for a term of four years.
Members of the Board of Patuxent Institu-
tion and the Advisory Board for Defective
Delinquents holding office on July 1, 1975
continue to serve for the remainder of their
terms.
By Chapter 324, Acts of 1976, the Di-
rector is the Chief Administrative Officer of
the Institution, who must be a trained, able
and competent administrator. There are
three Associate Directors, one of whom
must be a psychiatrist and one a behavioral
scientist, each with at least three years ex-
perience in the practice or teaching of his
specialty. The third associate is charged,
under the director, with the custodial duties
of the Institution (Code 1957, 1976 Repl.
Vol., 1976 Supp. Art. 31B, sec. 2).
Patuxent Institution is charged with the
responsibility for the confinement and treat-
ment, when appropriate, of adult criminal
offenders classified as defective delinquents |
under Article 31B of the Maryland Code. It
is also charged with the confinement and
diagnosis of offenders referred to the Insti-
tution by the Courts for determination of
their condition under that statute. The In-
stitution conducts a thorough psychiatric
evaluation of each offender so referred and
renders a formal opinion to the Court of
jurisdiction. Should the Institution recom-
mend against commitment, the Court re-
turns the offender to the Division of Cor-
rection where he will continue to serve his
original criminal sentence. If the Institution
recommends that the offender be confined
at the Institution, the Court promptly pro-
vides 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 defective delinquent
as defined in Article 31B. A defective de-
linquent is defined as "an individual who,
by the demonstration of persistent aggra-
vated antisocial or criminal behavior, evi-
dences a propensity toward criminal activ-
ity, and who is found to have either such
intellectual deficiency or emotional unbal-
ance, or both, as to clearly demonstrate an
actual danger to society so as to require
such confinement and treatment, when ap-
propriate, as may make it reasonably safe
for society to terminate the confinement and
treatment." Commitment as a defective de-
linquent under Article 31B is for indeter-
minate period subject to the order of the
Institutional Board of Review or the Courts.
The Institution offers complete medical,
psychiatric, psychological, and social case-
work services. There is a complete program
of academic, vocational, recreational, and
religious services. Outpatient services are
also provided for patients on pre-parole and
parole status. All such programs are directly
under the administration of the Institution
and are supervised by the same staff mem-
bers who work with the patient while at
the Institution. To provide for continuation
of treatment of patients in these programs,
the Institution operates an Outpatient Clinic
in Metropolitan Baltimore. In addition to
continued psychotherapy, the Outpatient
Clinic staff also provides job and family
counseling and social casework services for |
