State Agencies
Eager Street Pre-Release Unit
Baltimore City
Greenmount Avenue Pre-Release Unit
Baltimore City
Pre-Release Unit for Women
Baltimore City
Eastern Pre-Release Unit
Church Hill, Queen Anne's County
Poplar Hill Pre-Release Unit
Quantico, Wicomico County
Southern Maryland Pre-Release Unit
Hughesville, Charles County
The Division of Correction operates eight mini-
mum security pre-release facilities, formerly
known as correctional camps, which provide
work and other rehabilitative opportunities for
men and women transferred to these installations.
For the most part, these facilities house inmates
who are participating in the Work Release Pro-
gram. The Central Laundry Pre-Release Unit was
established in July 1960 to serve the laundry
needs of institutions under the jurisdiction of the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Be-
fore assignment to one of the pre-release units,
inmates are carefully screened either at the Re-
ception Center or at the institutions to which
they are assigned.
These units were originally established as work
camps by Chapter 266, Acts of 1955 (Code 1957,
Art. 27, sec. 689f), and subsequently were known
as "correctional camps." The Sandy Point Cor-
rectional Camp was relocated in Jessup and its
identification changed from the Sandy Point Cor-
rectional Camp to the Maryland Correctional
Camp Center by Chapter 385, Acts of 1966. Ef-
fective July 1978, the three Pre-Release Units
established under the CARC legislation (Art. 27,
sees. 706-7 IOE), namely, the Community
Corrections Center for Women in Baltimore, the
Community Corrections Center located in the
Baltimore City Jail, and the CARC Center on
Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore City were
placed under the jurisdiction of the correctional
camp system.
On August 16, 1978, the Board of Public
Works approved the request of the Department
of Public Safety and Correctional Services to
rename the units in the correctional camp system
"pre-release units." This change was effected
divisionwide September 1, 1978. On or about
February 1, 1979, the conversion of the camp

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known as the Maryland Correctional Camp Cen-
ter to a medium security facility will be complet-
ed. This facility will, however, continue to be op-
erated by the Maryland Correctional Pre-Release
System. This facility, for the purpose of identifi-
cation, is tentatively titled the Brockbridge Medi-
um Security Facility. The administrative offices of
the pre-release system are located in Jessup.
ADVISORY BOARD FOR CORREC-
TION, PAROLE AND PROBATION
Chairperson: Charles D. Harris, 1980
Ex officio members: J. Brown Hardy, Deputy Sec-
retary for Correctional Services; Edwin R.
Goodlander, Commissioner of Correction; Henry
P. Turner, Chairperson, Maryland Parole Com-
mission; Arnold J. Hopkins, Director, Division
of Parole and Probation.
Appointed members: Susan B. Harris, 1979;
Anthony P. Travisano, 1979; Edgar A. Fulton,
1980; Eli M. Lippman, 1980; Owen Wilson,
1980; Marianne Burt, 1981; Ray S. Gould,
1981; Margaret M. Dudley, 1982; John R.
Hargrove, 1982; Eileen Marion, 1982;
Gwendolyn J. Cooke, 1981; Yerby Holman,
1979.
One Investment Place
Towson 21204 Telephone: 321-3686
The Advisory Board for Correction, Parole and
Probation was created by Chapter 401, Acts of
1970, to succeed the Advisory Board for Correc-
tion established by Chapter 123, Acts of 1962, and
the Advisory Board for Parole and Probation,
established by Chapter 457, Acts of 1968. The
Board consists of seventeen members. Thirteen are
appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety and
Correctional Services with the approval of the
Governor for four-year terms. The Deputy Secre-
tary for Correctional Services, the Chairperson of
the Maryland Parole Commission, the Director of
Parole and Probation, and the Commissioner of
Correction serve as ex officio members. The Gover-
nor designated the first Chairperson, but thereafter
the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional
Services, with the approval of the Governor,
designates the Chairperson.
The function of the Advisory Board is to study
and observe procedures in and the development
and progress of the correction, parole, and proba-
tion systems in the State. The Board also makes
suggestions and gives advice regarding the State's
correction, parole, and probation systems to the
Secretary, the Deputy Secretary for Correctional
Services, the Commissioner of Correction,