Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(b) The purpose of the Institution is to provide efficient
and adequate programs and services for [the] treatment [and] WITH
THE GOAL OF rehabilitation of eligible persons. This shall
include a range of program alternatives indicated by the current
state of knowledge to be appropriate and effective for the
population being served. As an integral part of the program an
effective research and development effort should be established
and maintained to evaluate and recommend improvements on an
on-going basis.

[3.

(a) There is a board of Patuxent Institution. It consists
of 17 persons appointed as follows:

(1)  The Director of Mental Hygiene, the Commissioner
of Correction, and the Director of Parole and Probation serve ex
officio;

(2)  A professor of psychiatry at the University of
Maryland School of Medicine, appointed by the Secretary upon
nomination of the president of that university;

(3)  A professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, appointed by the Secretary upon
nomination of the president of that university;

(4)  A competent sociologist or criminologist from the
faculty of the University of Maryland, appointed by the Secretary
upon nomination of the president of that university;

(5)  A competent sociologist or criminologist from the
faculty of the Johns Hopkins University, appointed by the
Secretary upon nomination of the president of that university;

(6)  A full-time professor of constitutional or
criminal law at the law school of the University of Maryland,
appointed by the Secretary upon nomination of the dean of that
law school;

(7)  A full-time professor of constitutional or
criminal law at the law school of the University of Baltimore,
appointed by the Secretary upon nomination of the dean of the law
school;

(8)  Two practicing members of the Maryland Bar with
at least five years' experience in the trial of civil or criminal
cases, and six persons from the general public who are not
eligible for any of the other appointments to the board,
appointed by the Secretary with the approval of the Governor and
the advice and consent of the Senate.

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