PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 412

mayhem, robbery, carjacking or armed carjacking, burglary in the first, second, or third
degree, kidnapping as defined in §§ 337 and 338 of this article, or in the escape or attempt
to escape from the [Maryland Penitentiary, the house of correction, the Baltimore City
Detention Center] PATUXENT INSTITUTION, ANY INSTITUTION OR FACILITY UNDER
THE JURISDICTION OF THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION OR THE DIVISION OF
PRETRIAL DETENTION AND SERVICES, or from any jail or penal institution in any of the
counties of this State, shall be murder in the first degree.

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(a) The correctional and reformatory institutions under the Department
DIVISION of Correction are:

(b) (1) The Maryland Penitentiary.;

(c) (2) The Maryland House of Correction. ;

(d) (3) THE MARYLAND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION Hagerstown, which
is a place of confinement and training for male offenders from sixteen (16) to twenty-five
(25) years of age, both inclusive. In those cases in which the judge of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore City, who is assigned to exercise jurisdiction in juvenile causes, may waive
jurisdiction and order a minor under the age of sixteen, and the judge of any circuit court
in any county exercising jurisdiction in juvenile causes, may waive jurisdiction and order a
minor under the age of eighteen, to be held for action under the regular procedure that
would follow if such act or acts had been committed by on adult, then and in that event
the judge presiding in the circuit court of any county upon assuming jurisdiction in such
case and upon conviction may commit the minor to the Maryland Correctional Institution
—Hagerstown regardless of age. The courts of this State, instead of imposing sentences
of fixed duration upon male offenders included within this subsection may sentence them

to the Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown for on indeterminate period of

time which may not exceed the maximum term of imprisonment provided by statute for
the offenses of which said person was convicted; and in the event no penalty is prescribed
by statute for said offenses then the court shall prescribe the maximum term of
imprisonment; but nothing in this sentence applies to any case in which the sentence is
life imprisonment or to the service of time for nonpayment of a fine, ;

(d-1)(4) The Maryland Correctional Training Center-Hagerstown. ;

(e) (5)(1) The Maryland Correctional Institution for Women-Jessup, which is

the place of confinement and training for all female offenders who are sentenced to
imprisonment in any institution other than a jail, for an offense for which the maximum
penalty exceeds three (3) months.;

(II) Any female offender who may be sentenced to death shall be
detained in proper segregation and under adequate control in the Maryland Correctional

Institution for Women-Jessup until not less than twenty-four hours prior to the time

fixed by the Governor for the execution of such offender, at which time the offender shall
be transferred, by authority of the Department DIVISION of Correction, to the death
house in the Maryland Penitentiary for such execution, to be performed under the direct
supervision of the warden of the Maryland Penitentiary COMMISSIONER OF
CORRECTION in accordance with the provisions of §§ 71 to 79, both inclusive of this

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