Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is a Maryland state government agency that performs a number of functions,^[1] including the operation of the state prisons. It has its headquarters in Towson in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland.^[2]

Organizational units

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

• Division of Capital Construction and Facilities Maintenance
• Division of Correction
• Division of Parole and Probation
• Division of Pretrial Detention and Services (operates the jail and the pre-trial release program in the city of Baltimore)
• Emergency Number Systems Board^[3]
• Police and Correctional Training Commissions

Facilities

• Baltimore City Correctional Center
• Baltimore Pre-Release Unit
• Baltimore Pre-Release Unit for Women
• Baltimore Pre-Release Unit for Women-Annex
• Brockbridge Correctional Facility
• Eastern Correctional Institution
• Eastern Pre-Release Unit
• Home Detention Unit
• Jessup Pre-Release Unit
• Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center ("Baltimore Supermax Prison")
• Maryland Correctional Institution - Hagerstown
• Jessup Correctional Institution
• Maryland Correctional Institution - Women
• Maryland Correctional Training Center
• Maryland House of Correction
• Maryland House of Correction Annex
• Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center
• Metropolitan Transition Center
• North Branch Correctional Institution
• Patuxent Institution
• Poplar Hill Pre-Release Unit
• Roxbury Correctional Institution
• Southern Maryland Pre-Release Unit
• Herman L. Toulson Boot Camp
• Western Correctional Institution

Death row

The death row for men is in the North Branch Correctional Institution. The execution chamber is in the Metropolitan Transition Center. The five men who were on death row were moved in June 2010 from the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center to the current men's death row location.^[4]

Fallen officers

Since the establishment of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, 5 officers have died in the line of duty.^[5]

See also

• List of law enforcement agencies in Maryland
• List of United States state correction agencies
• List of U.S. state prisons
• Maryland Association of Correctional & Security Employees

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." The Baltimore Sun. June 25, 2010. Retrieved on September 22, 2010.
5. ^ The Officer Down Memorial Page

External links

• Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services