HERMAN TOULSON CORRECTIONAL BOOT
CAMP

P.O. Box 137
Jessup, MD 20794 799-4040

The former Jessup Pre-Release Unit was reor-
ganized as the Herman Toulson Correctional Boot
Camp in August 1990. The Camp was named after
Herman L. Toulson, Jr., a correctional officer who
was scabbed by an inmate in the south wing of the
Maryland Penitentiary on October 6,1984.
The Boot Camp is a setting where inmates can
help themselves and each other. Staff and inmates
concentrate on changing behavior and confronting
destructive attitudes. Through a disciplined life
style, Boot Camp enables inmates to examine and
change their attitudes and values, confront their
mistakes, and accept responsibility for their actions.
To be eligible for Boot Camp, inmates must be
under 26 years of age serving 5 years or less of their
first adult incarceration and not serving a sentence
for a crime of violence. Inmates must volunteer for
the program and be medically physically and
psychologically fit.
Boot Camp is based on strict discipline estab-
lished through regimented physical training,
military drill, and comprehensive rules and regula-
tions. Inmates labor on State highway road crews
five days a week. On Saturdays, inmates work on
special projects for area nonprofit organizations.
Boot Camp maintenance is performed by the in-
mates. Academic school is mandatory every week-
day evening. Counseling for substance abuse,
decision making, and behavior modification is avail-
able for each inmate.

EASTERN PRE-RELEASE UNIT

P.O. Box 122
Church Hill, MD 21623 758-1596

Eastern Pre-Release Unit opened in 1964. The
Unit can house 180 male inmates in open-style
dormitories. Educational, vocational, employment
and release readiness programs are available to the
prisoners as are recreational, religious and addic-
tions programs.

POPLAR HILL PRE-RELEASE UNIT

PO. Box 14
Quantico, MD 21856 543-6615

Poplar Hill Pre-Release Unit was established in
1950. Originally, the Unit provided inmate labor to
the highway departments ofWicomico, Dorchester,
Somerset and Worcester counties. Now, through
contracts with the State Highway Administration,
Deer's Head Center, Department of Natural
Resources, and local governments, inmates at
Poplar Hill provide public services to these govern-

ment agencies. In a renovated farm house on the
premises, educational and employment readiness
programs are conducted. Vocational programming
is available through contract with the Somerset
County Board of Education. Pre-release program-
ming includes work release and family leave.

SOUTHERN MAKTLAND PRE-RELEASE UNIT

Rte. 1, Box 159
Charlotte Hall, MD 20622 974-2060

Southern Maryland Pre-Release Unit was dedi-
cated in 1962. The Unit can house 180 male in-
mates. Approximately one-fourth of the men are
employed in the community through a work release
program. Other inmates provide labor for work
derails at the Stare Police Barracks at Waldorf and
Prince Frederick, the Natural Resources Police, the
Charles County Department of Public Works, the
State Highway Administration, and the Maryland
Veterans Cemetery at Cheltenham.

HOME DETENTION UNIT

2100 Guilford Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21212 333-1733

In 1990, the General Assembly authorized the
Home Detention Program (Chapter 414, Acts of
1990). The Program allows carefully selected inmates
to serve the last part of their sentences in the com-
munity Inmates are supervised by electronic monitor-
ing p".d random visits by correctional staff. The Unit
operates 24 hours a day seven days per week to
enforce inmate compliance and provide rehabilitation
services. The program, which covered 40 inmates
during Fiscal Year 1991, plans to encompass 300
inmates by the end of Fiscal Year 1993.

STATE USE INDUSTRIES
Steve Shiloh, Acting General Manager of State Use
Industries

920 Greenmount Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21202 780-4060

State Use Industries was established under the
Board of Correction in 1937 (Chapter 213, Acts of
1937). The Program was designed to provide essential
work and training for prisoners and to produce needed
goods for the State with inmate labor.
State Use Industries supplies services and
produces goods needed and used by State institu-
tions or agencies; political subdivisions of the State;
federal institutions or agencies; any institution,
agency, or political subdivision of another state; and
any charitable, civic, educational, fraternal, or
religious association, institution, or agency for its
own use and not for resale to others within one year
of purchase (Code 1957, Art. 27, sees. 680-681M).