1502                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 695

Department as feasible. From the 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 possible, to such treat-
ment, training, and employment as in the judgment of said Com-
missioner will improve discipline or aid in the safekeeping, treatment,
training, employment, and preparation of said offender for parole or
release upon the expiration of his sentence]. It is the further duty of
the warden or superintendent of the respective institutions, under
regulations established by the Department of Correction, 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 presented 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 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 inmates.

693.

For the purposes mentioned in Section 691 of this [section] article,
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] THE JURISDICTION OF the Department, 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 fur-
nished by him,] Department a criminal history of such criminal as
fully as it is known or can be ascertained by such State's Attorney.

697.

The [warden or other person in charge of said institutions]
Department shall furnish a copy of any such record kept [in said
institution] by it to any police officer presenting an order for such
copy signed by the superintendent or other officer in charge of police
in [the] any city or county [where such institution is located]; also
on or before the twenty-eighth day of each and every month, the
[warden or other person in charge of any of said institutions]
Department shall furnish to the superintendent or other officer in
charge of police in the city or county [where the institution is lo-
cated] from which the prisoner was committed, the name of every
convict whose sentence expires the following month, together with the
date when sentence commenced, the county or city from which com-
mitted, the crime for which committed, and the exact date when the
convict will be discharged.

698.

Whenever it appears to the [officer in charge of any penal insti-
tution] Department that a prisoner in [such institution] any insti-
tution under its control is ill, and that the facilities of the institution