WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 147

CHAPTER 147

(Senate Bill 171)

AN ACT concerning

Division of Correction - Special Leave for Inmates

FOR the purpose of authorizing special leave for inmates to
participate in community-based treatment programs which will
contribute to the rehabilitation of inmates and defining
qualifications for an inmate to participate in special
leave.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 700C(a) and (c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and. Punishments

700C.

(a) The Commissioner of Correction, the deputy commissioner,
the assistant commissioner — operations, or the assistant
commissioner — administration, may authorize special leave
within or without this State in accordance with the provisions of
this section for any inmate confined in any of the institutions
under the Commissioner's jurisdiction who has been selected to
participate in a prerelease program. Inmates qualified for [the
prerelease program] SPECIAL LEAVE are those who are [serving]
within [the last] three months of their [sentence, or approved
for the parole supervision] ANTICIPATED RELEASE.

(c) Leave may be authorized for an inmate or group of
inmates in a prerelease program to leave an institution for
participation in [special] community TREATMENT programs or
educational programs, which [have as their purpose] WILL
CONTRIBUTE TO the rehabilitation of inmates.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987.

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