Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

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Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
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Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionMaryland, USA
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Map of Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services's jurisdiction
General nature
Operational structure
Headquarters Baltimore County, Maryland
Agency executive
  • Carolyn J. Scruggs, Secretary
Website

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 an unincorporated area of Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, with a Baltimore address. There are additional offices in Sykesville. [2]

Contents

Administration

The headquarters were previously in Towson. [3]

Organizational units

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

Facilities

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Chesapeake Detention Facility
Detention Facilities
NameSecurity LevelCounty
Baltimore Central Booking and Intake CenterIntake Baltimore City
Chesapeake Detention Facility MaximumBaltimore City
Maryland Reception, Diagnostic, and Classification CenterIntakeBaltimore City
Metropolitan Transition Center MediumBaltimore City
Youth Detention CenterMaximumBaltimore City
Correctional Facilities
NameSecurity LevelCounty
Baltimore City Correctional CenterMinimum, Pre-Release, Work ReleaseBaltimore City
Central Maryland Correctional FacilityMinimum, Pre-Release Carroll
Dorsey Run Correctional FacilityMinimum, Pre-Release Anne Arundel
Eastern Correctional Institution Medium Somerset
Jessup Correctional Institution MaximumAnne Arundel
Maryland Correctional Institution–Hagerstown Medium Washington
Maryland Correctional Institution–Jessup MediumAnne Arundel
Maryland Correctional Institution for Women Minimum, Medium, Maximum, Pre-ReleaseAnne Arundel
Maryland Correctional Transition CenterMinimum, Medium, Pre-ReleaseWashington
North Branch Correctional Institution Maximum Allegany
Patuxent Institution MaximumAnne Arundel
Roxbury Correctional Institution MediumWashington
Western Correctional Institution MaximumAllegany

Closed facilities

Proposed facilities

Death row

The "Death Row" for men was in the North Branch Correctional Institution in Western Maryland's Cumberland area. The execution chamber is in the Metropolitan Transition Center (the former Maryland Penitentiary). The five men who were on the State's "death row" were moved in June 2010 from the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center. [5] In December 2014, former Governor Martin O'Malley commuted the sentences of all Maryland death row inmates to life sentences. [6]

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. [7]

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. [8]

See also

National:

References

  1. ↑ About the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
  2. ↑ "Home". Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Retrieved September 4, 2024. 6776 Reisterstown Road, Baltimore, MD 21215[...]6852 4th Street, Sykesville, MD 21784
  3. ↑ Home page (Archive). Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Retrieved on December 7, 2009. "300 East Joppa Road, Suite 1000 Towson, Maryland 21286"
  4. ↑ Annotated Code of Maryland, Public Safety Article, § 1-305
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Blinder, Alan (December 31, 2014). "Maryland Governor Commutes Death Sentences, Emptying Death Row". The New York Times . Retrieved December 31, 2014.
  7. ↑ Federal indictment United States of America vs Eric Brown et al.
  8. ↑ The Officer Down Memorial Page
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