SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1501

690.

(a)   The provisions of this section are applicable to any judge of
the Circuit Court for any county, the judges of the Criminal Courts
of Baltimore City, any trial magistrate, People's Court judge or
Municipal Court judge, exercising criminal jurisdiction, and all of
such persons are described herein as "judge".

(b)  Notwithstanding any of the. provisions of this Article or any
other law to the contrary, on and after June 1, 1967, judges, in the
sentencing of convicted persons (a) for any offense for which the
provisions of this Article or any other law requires the imprison-
ment to be served at any one of those institutions enumerated in
Section 689 of this Article or (b) any offense for which prior to
June 1, 1967, the sentence was made for whatever reason to one of
those institutions in Section 689, shall in all such cases sentence
such persons to the jurisdiction of the Department of Correction.
All such persons shall be committed to the custody of the Commis-
sioner of Correction and delivered to him for imprisonment. There-
after all such persons shall be held, confined in, assigned to or trans-
ferred to such of the institutions and facilities under the jurisdiction
of the Department as the Department from time to time may order.

ANY PERSON SENTENCED PRIOR TO JUNE 1, 1967 TO ANY
ONE OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND FACILITIES UNDER THE
JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT MAY, AFTER SUCH
DATE, AND NOT WITHSTANDING SUCH SENTENCE, BE
HELD, CONFINED IN, ASSIGNED TO OR TRANSFERRED TO
SUCH OF THESE INSTITUTIONS AND FACILITIES AS THE
DEPARTMENT MAY FROM TIME TO TIME ORDER.

(c)  No sentence by any judge to the jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment may be for less than three months, any provision of this
Article or any other law to the contrary notwithstanding. Nothing
in this section shall prevent any judge from committing any minor
to any facility to which minors may be committed under the law as
it existed prior to June 1, 1967.

(d)   Whenever in this Article or any other law reference is made
to the sentencing or confinement of prisoners to any of the institu-
tions enumerated in Section 689, such reference shall after June 1,
1967, be construed to mean sentencing or confinement to the juris-
diction of the Department rather than to any particular institution
or facility of the Department.

691.

(a) Promptly after the [admission] sentencing of any person to
[any of the State penal or reformatory institutions subject to the
control of] THE JURISDICTION 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 necessary information and prepare
an adequate case record of each inmate which shall include a descrip-
tion of the offender, photograph or photographs, 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 educa-
tional examination, which shall be conducted as soon after [admission
to the institution] sentencing to the JURISDICTION OF THE