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TENCE APPLIES TO ANY CASE IN WHICH THE SENTENCE
IMPOSED IS LIFE IMPRISONMENT.

(f) The Department of Correction is authorized to operate cor-
rectional camps as established from time to time.

690.

(a) When any person is convicted, before any circuit court of any
county, or the Criminal Court of Baltimore, of any crime, committed
on or after June 1, 1943, and punishable by any imprisonment what-
soever or by fine and imprisonment (other than imprisonment in de-
fault of fine), the court may sentence such person to imprisonment
in jail or in one of the institutions for males under the jurisdiction of
the Department of Correction provided, however, that no sentence
to the penitentiary or house of correction may be for less than three
months; except that any sentence under Section 455 of this article
may be imposed in accordance with the provisions of said Section 455.
Whenever the Commissioner of Correction determines that prison
discipline will be furthered by transferring male prisoners among the
institutions for males under its jurisdiction, and issues his warrant
to the warden and superintendent or wardens of said institution di-
recting such transfer, the sentence of the court shall operate to
authorize such transfer by virtue hereof. The power of transfer
conferred upon the Commissioner of Correction by this section au-
thorizes the Commissioner of Correction to transfer any person con-
fined in any of said institutions to any other of said institutions at
any time the said Commissioner of Correction determines that such
transfer will improve discipline or aid in the safekeeping, treatment,
training, employment, or rehabilitation of such person.

(b) It is expressly provided, however, that nothing in this section
may be construed to add to, alter, or change the class of crimes, as
they existed before June 1, 1943, with respect to the right of chal-
lenge or with respect to the fees in criminal cases, or to make any
crime infamous, by reason of any sentence to the Maryland Peniten-
tiary, or transfer thereto, which would not have been an infamous
crime before June 1, 1948; and it is further provided that nothing in
this section may be construed to prevent any court from committing
any minor to any industrial school or juvenile reformatory to which
minors may now be committed under existing law, or from commit-
ting any female offenders to the Maryland State Reformatory for
Women, as authorized by Section 689.

Prisoners

691.

(a) Promptly after the admission of any person to any of the
State penal OR REFORMATORY institutions subject to the control
of the Department of Correction, it is the duty of the warden or
superintendent of the institution, under such regulations as may be
established by the Department of Correction, to assemble the neces-
sary information and prepare an adequate case record of each inmate
which shall include a description of the offender, photograph or pho-
tographs, his family history, previous record, a summary of the facts
of the case for which he is serving sentence and the results of his
physical, mental, and educational examination, which shall be con-
ducted as soon after admission to the institution as feasible. From the