Dantes, Chairperson, Maryland Parole
Commission; William J. DeVance, Director,
Division of Parole and Probation.

6776 Reisterstown Rd.
Baltimore 21215 Telephone: 764-4003

In 1970, the Advisory Board for Correction, Pa-
role and Probation was created to succeed the Ad-
visory Board for Correction, formed in 1962, and
the Advisory Board for Parole and Probation, es-
tablished in 1968 (Chapter 401, Acts of 1970).
The Board regularly reviews the operation of the
correction, parole, and probation systems in the
State, including current practices and procedures,
agency plans, and budgets. The Board advises the
Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Public Safety
and Correctional Services, the Commissioner of
Correction, the Chairperson of the Maryland Pa-
role Commission, and the Director of the Division
of Parole and Probation on issues and problems
pertaining to corrections, parole, and probation.

The Board consists of seventeen members. Four
serve ex officio and thirteen are appointed by the
Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional
Services with the approval of the Governor for
four-year terms. The Secretary of Public Safety
and Correctional Services, with the approval of
the Governor, designates the chairperson (Code
1957, Art. 41, sec. 4-107).

PATUXENT INSTITUTION

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

Authorized by Chapter 476, Acts of 1951, Pa-
tuxent Institution opened in 1955 under the ad-
ministrative control of the Department of Correc-
tion. The Institution became an autonomous
agency under the control of the Board of Patuxent
Institution in 1961 (Chapter 629, Acts of 1961).
In 1970, the Institution became part of the De-
partment of Public Safety and Correctional
Services (Chapter 401, Acts of 1970). Its status
continued as an institution separate from the Di-
vision of Correction, and it retained its own
board.

Patuxent Institution provides treatment and re-
habilitation programs and services for eligible per-
sons. The Commissioner of Correction may refer
a person to Patuxent Institution for evaluation
when this is recommended 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 Commis-
sioner may also refer a person in response to an
application by the person himself. Each person so
referred is transferred to the Institution for evalu-
ation by an evaluation team consisting of at least
three professional employees of the Institution, in-
cluding at least one psychiatrist, one psychologist,
and one social worker or behavioral scientist. The
evaluation team assembles and reviews all avail-
able relevant information about the person and
conducts its own examination of that individual.
Based on its own examination and the informa-
tion assembled, the team determines whether this
individual is an eligible person and states its find-
ings 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 re-
mains at Patuxent 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.

To provide for continuation of treatment, the
Institution operates a community clinic in metro-
politan Baltimore. Here, clinic staff offer psycho-
therapy, job and family counseling, and social
casework services for individuals and families. At
the community clinic, the Institution operates a
halfway house. This residence provides housing
and supportive services for parolees who have no
support in the community. The halfway house al-
so houses some work-release inmates.

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 diagnosis and
treatment. The third Associate Director assists
primarily in the field of custody. By law the staff
also must include at least three additional psychi-
atrists 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.; Brian
M. Hepbum; Stella L. Hargett, Ph.D.; Robert B.
Levinson, Ph.D.; Mose Lewis III; Uthman Ray,
Jr., M.D.; James L. Roberts; Edward A.
Tomlinson, Ph.D.; Charles F. Wellford, Ph.D.;
Eugene J. Zander. Terms expire 1989.