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Session Laws, 1972
Volume 708, Page 613   View pdf image
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Marvin Mandel, Governor                         613

in the Maryland Penitentiary and in the Maryland House of Correc-
tion, who are physically able to work upon the public roads of the
State, or of any county, city or town thereof, and who are available
for such work. If the governing body of any town or city other than
Baltimore City or the county commissioners of any county desire the
prisoners confined in the jails under their respective jurisdictions to
work upon the public roads or streets, then they may, in like manner,
certify to the Governor the number of male prisoners confined in the
jails under their respective jurisdictions who are physically able to
work upon said public roads of the State, or of any county, city or
town thereof, and who are available for such work; provided, how-
ever, that in Frederick City, the [justice of the peace] District
Court judge
who tried and committed a vagrant or other offender
of a municipal law or ordinance is hereby authorized and directed,
whenever practicable, to make an assignment of such person to em-
ployment on the county roads or on the streets of the city, and the
sheriff or other officer into whose custody said person has been com-
mitted is hereby ordered to comply with any such order for assign-
ment, and the person ordered to work by the [justice of the peace]
judge is to be guarded, if he works upon the streets of the city, by the
superintendent of streets or by any other person deputized by the
sheriff, and if he works upon the roads of the county, then he shall be
guarded by the road supervisor of the district in which the said per-
son works, and the sheriff is hereby authorized to deputize for this
purpose any of the said officials or other persons to take charge of
the said persons while so employed.

§ 639A. Release from actual confinement of certain prisoners in
Queen Anne's County and Anne Arundel County.

(a) Queen Anne's County.

(1)  Release by District Court judge; purpose of release.A Dis-
trict Court judge in Queen Anne's County may direct that any person
sentenced by him to a period of confinement in the county jail be
granted the privilege of leaving actual confinement during necessary
and reasonable hours for the purpose of working at gainful private
employment. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize
the release of a prisoner for any other purpose or at any time other
than that during which he is actually employed or actually going to or
from his place of employment.

(2)  Time required; conditions for release; failure to return; vio-
lations.
The Department of Parole and Probation shall determine the
time actually necessary for a prisoner to go to and from his place of
employment and to perform the duties required of him as an employee,.
Prior to any release pursuant to this section, a prisoner shall sign an
agreement to return to the county jail at the time so determined by
the Department (to be specified by hour in the agreement) or im-
mediately after his work is over, whichever is earlier, and in any
event to return directly to the jail following the termination of his
daily employment; to enter no vehicle or building except in the ordi-
nary course of his employment; to surrender his total earnings as
provided in subsection (c); to have no alcoholic beverages in his pos-
session at any time; to bring no object into the jail without the
express permission of the Sheriff or a deputy sheriff; and to observe
such other conditions as may be deemed proper and designated in


 

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