1504                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 695

dation, maintenance, and medical care shall be paid by said woman
or her relatives or friends, or from any fund that is available for
the hospital expenses of such inmate within the institution, or, if
not otherwise available, shall be a charge upon the county, city, or
town from which such inmate was committed [to such institution],
and collectible by such officer in charge of such institution. Upon
proof being furnished by the father or other relatives of their
ability properly to care for and maintain such child, the Depart-
ment may order that the child be given into the care and custody
of the father or other relative, who shall thereafter care for and
maintain the same as his or her own expense until the release of
the mother of such child or until such child shall have been duly
adopted as provided by law. If it shall appear that the father or
other relative is unable properly to care for and maintain such
child, the Department of Correction shall place the child in the care
of the Department of Public Welfare of the county or Baltimore
City from which said inmate was committed as a proper charge
upon such county or Baltimore City.

700A.

(a) The Department of Correction is authorized and directed to
establish a "work release" program under which prisoners sentenced
to '[an institution under] the jurisdiction of said Department may
be granted the privilege of leaving actual confinement during neces-
sary and reasonable hours for the purpose of working at gainful
private employment in this State. Such program may also include,
under appropriate conditions, release for the purpose of seeking
such employment.

701.

For the purpose of increasing the efficiency in the treatment,
management, and rehabilitation of persons [committed to] con-
fined in any of the institutions under the control of the Department
of Correction, there shall be full and complete interchange between
the Department of Correction and the Department of Parole and
Probation of records and all pertinent information relating to each
of the persons so '[committed] confined. It is the duty of said de-
partments to provide the procedures and methods for the inter-
change of the records and information as required by this section.

702.

It is lawful for the Department of Correction on such terms and
conditions as it may prescribe to receive into custody any person
who is sentenced to [imprisonment in the institutions under] its
jurisdiction by the court of the United States for the District of
Maryland, and any person who is sentenced to imprisonment by the
courts of the United States for the District of Maryland, while in
such institutions, is subject to the same rules and discipline to which
other inmates from the State courts are subjected.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws,
public general or public local, inconsistent with the provisions of
this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of any such inconsistency.