298/Maryland Manual

tional Services designates the chairperson (Code
1957, Art. 41, secs. 107-117).

PATUXENT INSTITUTION

Dr. Norma B. Gluckstern, Director
Jessup 20794 Telephone: 799-3400

Authorized by Chapter 476, Acts of 1951,
Patuxent Institution opened in 1955 under the
administrative control of the Department of Cor-
rection. By Chapter 629, Acts of 1961, the Institu-
tion became an autonomous agency under the
control of the Board of Patuxent Institution. By
Chapter 401, Acts of 1970, the Institution became
a part of the Department of Public Safety and
Correctional Services. Its status continued as an
institution separate from the Division of Correc-
tion, and it retained its own board.

Patuxent Institution is to provide efficient and
adequate programs and services for the treatment
and rehabilitation of eligible persons. The Commis-
sioner of Correction may refer a person to Patux-
ent Institution for evaluation when this is recom-
mended by the sentencing court, by the State's
Attorney of the jurisdiction in which the person
was last sentenced, or by the staff of the Division of
Correction. The Commissioner may also refer a
person in response to an application by the person
himself. Each person so referred is transferred to
the Institution for evaluation by an evaluation
team consisting of at least three professional em-
ployees of the Institution, including at least one
psychiatrist, one psychologist, and one social
worker or behavioral scientist. The evaluation
team assembles and reviews all available relevant
information about the person and conducts its own
examination of that individual. Based on its own
examination and the information assembled, the
team determines whether this individual is an
eligible person and states its findings in a report to
the Director. If not eligible, the person is returned
to the Division of Correction to continue his
sentence. If eligible, the person remains at Patux-
ent Institution for treatment.

The Institution offers medical, psychiatric, psy-
chological, and social casework services, as well as
academic, vocational, recreational, and religious
services. Treatment services are also provided for
individuals on pre-parole and parole status. All
such programs are directly under the administra-
tion of the Institution and are supervised by the
same staff members who worked with the inmate
while he was at the Institution.

To provide for continuation of treatment in these
programs, the Institution operates a community
clinic in Metropolitan Baltimore. In addition to
continued psychotherapy, the clinic staff also pro-
vides job and family counseling and social case-
work services for the individual and his family. At
the community clinic, the Institution operates a
halfway house. This residential unit provides hous-
ing and supportive services for parolees who have
insufficient personal or family resources to support
them in the community. The Institution also
houses all pre-parole inmates located on the
grounds of the Institution. This forty-bed facility is
staffed by a trained social worker and officer-
counselors who provide continuous counseling and
supervision.

The Director is the Chief Administrative Officer
of the Institution. Of three Associate Directors,
one must be a psychiatrist and one a behavioral
scientist. They assist primarily in the areas of
diagnosis and treatment. The third Associate Di-
rector assists primarily in the field of custody. By
law the staff also must include at least three
additional psychiatrists or clinical psychologists, at
least four trained social workers, a physician, and a
dentist.

Board of Patuxent Institution

Chairperson: Rev. Marcus G. Wood

Fred S. Berlin, M.D.; Robert E. Cahill; Minor B.
Crager, Ph.D.; Robert A. Gordon, Ph.D.;
Robert B. Levinson, Ph.D.; Mose Lewis III;
Peter R. Maida, Ph.D.; Olive W. Quinn, Ph.D.;
Uthman Ray, Jr., M.D.; James L. Roberts;
Edward A. Tomlinson, Ph.D.; Eugene J.
Zander; one vacancy. Terms expire 1985.

Ex officio: Alp Karahasan, M.D., Administrator,
Mental Hygiene Administration; William J.
Devance, Acting Director, Parole and Probation;
Arnold J. Hopkins, Commissioner of Correction.

Telephone: 799-3400

By Chapter 284, Acts of 1975, the Board of
Patuxent Institution and the Advisory Board for
Defective Delinquents (Chapter 476, Acts of 1951)
were merged into a single board, known as the
Board of Patuxent Institution. The Board consults
and advises the Director and the Secretary with
respect to the operation, programs, services, per-
sonnel, and rules and regulations of Patuxent
Institution.

The Board of Patuxent Institution includes three
ex officio and fourteen appointed members. Ap-
pointed members include a professor of psychiatry