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of the State's correctional institutions. In accor-
dance with this new law, the Division of Correc-
tion has established a Reception-Diagnostic Clas-
sification Center at the Maryland Correctional
Institution for Women—Jessup. This Center re-
ceives all adult females serving sentences ranging
from three months through life imprisonment
who have been convicted of felonies and misde-
meanors and who are not sent to local jails.
Upon the completion of these classification proce-
dures in the Center, female inmates are trans-
ferred to the proper Maryland correctional insti-
tution to complete their sentences. Both the
Reception Center for Women and the Maryland
Correctional Institution for Women are located
on the same grounds.
MARYLAND CORRECTIONAL
PRE-RELEASE SYSTEM
William E. Lamb, Jr., Superintendent
Administration Building
Jessup 20794 Telephone: 799-1363
Central Laundry Pre-Release Unit
Sykesville, Carroll County
Community Vocational-Rehabilitation &
Pre-Release Unit
Baltimore
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 seven min-
imum 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-
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fore assignment to one of the pre-release units, in-
mates are carefully screened either at the Recep-
tion 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 two Pre-Release Units
established under the CARC (Community Adult
Rehabilitation Centers) legislation (Art. 27, secs.
706-710E)—the Community Corrections Center
for Women in Baltimore and the CARC Center
on Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore City—were
placed under the jurisdiction of the new correc-
tional pre-release 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. In 1979, the
camp known as the Maryland Correctional Camp
Center was converted to a medium security facili-
ty. This facility, however, continues to be operat-
ed by the Maryland Correctional Pre-Release Sys-
tem. For the purpose of identification, this facility
is titled the Brockbridge Correctional Facility.
The administrative offices of the pre-release sys-
tem are located in Jessup.
ADVISORY BOARD FOR
CORRECTION, PAROLE AND
PROBATION
Chairperson: George Beall, 1984
Ex officio members: J. Brown Hardy, Deputy Sec-
retary for Correctional Services; Edwin R.
Goodlander, Commissioner of Correction; Hen-
ry P. Turner, Chairperson. Maryland Parole
Commission; Arnold J. Hopkins, Director, Divi-
sion of Parole and Probation.
Appointed members: Marianne Burt, 1981;
Gwendolyn J. Cooke, 1981; Ray S. Gould,
1981; Margaret M. Dudley, 1982; John R.
Hargrove, 1982; Eileen Marion, 1982; Susan
Banes Harris, 1983; Yerby Holman, 1983; Ar-
thur H. Katz, 1983; Avon J. Bellamy, 1984; Eli
M. Lippman, 1984; Owen Wilson, 1984.
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