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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
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Sincerely,
Marvin Mandel
Governor
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Senate Bill So. 452 - Patuxent Institution -
Aggressive and Violent Offenders
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AN ACT concerning
Aggressive and Violent Offenders
FOR the purpose of providing new and different
alternatives for dealing with aggressive and violent
offenders; amending the definition of a crime of
violence to include the use of a handgun in the
commission of a felony or other crime of violence;
clarifying the definition of correctional
institution as including Patuxent Institution and
local or regional jails and detention centers;
providing a minimum mandatory sentence for certain
persons who have been convicted of three violent
crimes; providing for the nonsuspension of such
sentence and the conditions under which a person
receiving it may be paroled; rewriting the
provisions of law concerning defective delinquency
and Patuxent Institution; defining terms; providing
for Patuxent Institution, its governance and staff;
prohibiting certain conflicts of interests;
providing procedures for the referral and transfer
of persons to Patuxent; providing for the rights,
treatment, and rehabilitation, release, and
retransfer of persons transferred to Patuxent;
providing for the assembling, review,
confidentiality, and dissemination of certain
information; making persons committed to Patuxent
subject to the Interstate Agreement on Detainers;
providing certain transition provisions with respect
to persons previously committed to Patuxent;
correcting certain obsolete references to Executive
units; and relating generally to aggressive and
violent offenders.
May 26, 1977
Honorable Steny H. Hoyer
President of the Senate
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21404
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Dear Mr. President:
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