402 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 123

information so assembled, each inmate shall be classified and assigned
to such available treatment, training, or employment as may be
deemed appropriate, and to this end, the Commissioner of Correction
shall exercise liberally the powers of transfer conferred by Section
690 of this article, it being intended that each prisoner sentenced to
any of the penal institutions subject to the control of the Department
of Correction shall be assigned or transferred, as expeditiously as pos-
sible, to such treatment, training, and employment as in the judgment
of said Commissioner will improve discipline or aid in the safekeep-
ing, treatment, training, employment, and preparation of said offen-
der for parole or release upon the expiration of his sentence. 1't is the
further duty of the warden or superintendent of the respective insti-
tutions, under regulations established by the Department of Correc-
tion, to keep and preserve adequate records of the conduct, effort,
and progress of each inmate during confinement; and copies of the
case and institutional records, or summaries thereof, shall be pre-
sented to the parole authority by the time each such inmate becomes
eligible for parole and at other times when requested.

(b) For the purpose of obtaining accurate descriptions of convicts,
INMATES, the warden or other person in charge of any of said
institutions, may adopt the Bertillon method of measurement and
registration or such other method as may minutely describe convicts.
INMATES.

692.

The Commissioner of Correction shall prescribe the character of
punishments for violation of discipline in the institutions of the De-
partment, which shall be administered by the direction of the warden
OR SUPERINTENDENT of each of said institutions, who shall
preserve an accurate record of the character of offense committed
and the nature and amount of punishment inflicted. In the Maryland
Penitentiary and in

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693.

For the purposes mentioned in Section 691 of this section, the
State's attorney of any county or city in which a person has been
convicted of crime and sentenced to imprisonment in one of said

institutions, shall forward to the warden or other person in charge
of the institution at the request of the warden or other person, and
upon blanks furnished by him, a criminal history of such criminal
as fully as it is known or can be ascertained by such State's attorney.

694.

Whenever a person is convicted of crime and sentenced to impris-
onment in any of said institutions, the clerk of the court imposing
the sentence shall make and forward as soon as practicable, but not
later than thirty days from time of commitment, to the warden or
other person in charge of the institution to which the prisoner is
sentenced, a record containing a short copy of the docket entries,

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