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BUREAU OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
Janet Q. Bacon, Assistant Director
(410)764-4284
The Bureau of Administrative Services provides
fiscal, administrative, training, technical and per-
sonnel services to the Division of Parole and Pro-
bation and its field operations.
BURFAU OF FIELD OPERATIONS
Donald Atkinson, Ed.D., Executive Assistant Director
(410) 764-4279
The Bureau of Field Operations was created in
1978 to decentralize the statewide administration
of parole and probation services. Under the Bureau
are the Correctional Options Program, four re-
gional offices, the Case Monitoring Unit, and the
Interstate Compact Unit.
CORRECTIONAL OPTIONS PROGRAM
Thomas H. Williams, Director
(410) 764-4010
Started in March 1994, the Correctional Op-
tions Program oversees community programs that
are alternatives to incarceration in the metropolitan
Baltimore area. These include home detention,
drug court, day reporting, boot camps, intensive
parole supervision, a regimented offender treat-
ment center, and a re-entry aftercare facility.
CORRECTIONAL OPTIONS ADVISORY BOARD
Charles F. Wellford, Ph.D., Chair
The Correctional Options Advisory Board was
created by the Secretary of Public Safety and Cor-
rectional Services in 1993. The Board advises the
Secretary on intermediate sanctions for parole vio-
lators. The Board also assists the project, Correc-
tional Options: Part I. Started as a pilot project,
Correctional Options: Part I is a State program that
develops and implements initiatives to manage low-
risk offenders through alternatives to incarceration
since July 1995. Maryland was selected as one of
four sites tor the project by the Bureau of Justice
Assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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CASE MONITORING UNIT
Richard J. Beach, .Field Supervisor
(410) 333-8150
The Case Monitoring Unit began in June 1994,
when it assumed duties previously performed by the
field offices. The Unit monitors inactive cases,
where the serving of parole or probation is delayed
for reasons such as incarceration for a previous
crime. Once an inmate is available to serve parole
or to be placed on probation, the Unit alerts the
field office to supervise the parolee or probationer.
INTERSTATE COMPACT UNIT
Marcia E. McCray, Deputy Compact
Administrator
(410) 333-8547
The Interstate Compact Unit coordinates activities
resulting from the Interstate Compact for Supervision
of Parolees and Probationers. The Compact is an
agreement among the fifty states, the District of
Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Its
primary purpose is to provide a systematic way for
transferring eligible parolees and probationers from
one jurisdiction to another, usually for rehabilitation.
At the same time, public safety must be maintained
and the instructions of the sentencing court ensured.
Each receiving state visits and supervises probationers
and parolees of the sending state and is governed in
those duties by the same standards that prevail for its
own probationers and parolees. Eligible offenders
usually have family or responsible friends residing in
the receiving state. Before granting such permission,
the receiving state is given an opportunity to investi-
gate the offender's intended residence and prospec-
tive employment.
REGIONAL OFFICES OF
CRIMINAL SUPERVISION
Regional Offices of Criminal Supervision began as
Offices of Regional Operations in 1980. They were
reorganized under their present name in 1994.
The four Regional Offices administer the super-
vision of probationers and parolees by agents as-
signed to some forty field offices.
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