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Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
Baltimore, Maryland
Agency executive
  • Carolyn J. Scruggs, Secretary
Website
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The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) is a government agency of the State of Maryland that performs a number of functions,[1] including the operation of state prisons. It has its headquarters in Towson, Maryland, an unincorporated community that is also the seat of Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, located north of Maryland's largest city of Baltimore. Additional offices for correctional institutions supervision are located on Reisterstown Road in northwest Baltimore.[2]

Organizational units

Some of the agencies contained within the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services include:

Facilities

Chesapeake Detention Facility
Detention Facilities
Name Security Level County
Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center Intake Baltimore City
Chesapeake Detention Facility Maximum Baltimore City
Maryland Reception, Diagnostic, and Classification Center Intake Baltimore City
Metropolitan Transition Center Medium Baltimore City
Youth Detention Center Maximum Baltimore City
Correctional Facilities
Name Security Level County
Baltimore City Correctional Center Minimum, Pre-Release, Work Release Baltimore City
Central Maryland Correctional Facility Minimum, Pre-Release Carroll
Dorsey Run Correctional Facility Minimum, Pre-Release Anne Arundel
Eastern Correctional Institution Medium Somerset
Jessup Correctional Institution Maximum Anne Arundel
Maryland Correctional Institution–Hagerstown Medium Washington
Maryland Correctional Institution–Jessup Medium Anne Arundel
Maryland Correctional Institution for Women Minimum, Medium, Maximum, Pre-Release Anne Arundel
Maryland Correctional Transition Center Minimum, Medium, Pre-Release Washington
North Branch Correctional Institution Maximum Allegany
Patuxent Institution Maximum Anne Arundel
Roxbury Correctional Institution Medium Washington
Western Correctional Institution Maximum Allegany

Closed facilities

Proposed facilities

Death row

The "Death Row" for men was in the

Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center.[4] In December 2014, former Governor Martin O'Malley commuted the sentences of all Maryland death row inmates to life sentences.[5]

Black Guerrilla Family

In 2009, a federal indictment under the RICO Act charges that the Black Guerrilla Family gang was active in a number of facilities, including North Branch Correctional Institution, Western Correctional Institution, Eastern Correctional Institution, Roxbury Correctional Institution, Maryland Correctional Institution – Jessup, Maryland Correctional Institution – Hagerstown, Baltimore City Correctional Center, and Metropolitan Transition Center, and the Baltimore City Detention Center (formerly and also known as the Baltimore City Jail).

The gang had a statewide "supreme commander" as well as subordinate commanders in each facility. These leaders were assisted by other gang officials dubbed ministers of intelligence, justice, defense and education. These organizations enforced a code of conduct and smuggled contraband into the facilities.[6]

Another prison gang, this one of mostly white prisoners, known as "D.M.I." Dead Man Incorporated was founded in Maryland prisons in 2001 or 2002 as an offshoot of the Black Guerrilla Family.

Fallen officers

Since the establishment of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, five officers have died while on duty.[7]

See also

National:

References

  1. ^ About the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
  2. ^ Home page. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Retrieved on December 7, 2009.
  3. ^ Annotated Code of Maryland, Public Safety Article, § 1-305
  4. ^ Calvert, Scott and Kate Smith. "Death row inmates transferred to W. Maryland Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today." The Baltimore Sun. June 25, 2010. Retrieved on September 22, 2010.
  5. ^ Blinder, Alan (December 31, 2014). "Maryland Governor Commutes Death Sentences, Emptying Death Row". The New York Times. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
  6. ^ Federal indictment United States of America vs Eric Brown et al.
  7. ^ The Officer Down Memorial Page

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