- Source: Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
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, 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.
Administration
The headquarters were previously in Towson.
= Organizational units
=Some of the agencies contained within the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services include:
Criminal Injuries Compensation Board
Division of Capital Construction and Facilities Maintenance
Division of Correction
Division of Parole and Probation
Division of Pretrial Detention and Services (operates the former Baltimore City Jail - now the Baltimore City Detention Center and the pre-trial release programs in the city of Baltimore)
Emergency Number Systems Board
Handgun Permit Review Board
Inmate Grievance Office
Internal Investigative Division
Information Technology and Communications Division
Maryland Correctional Enterprises
Maryland Parole Commission
Office of the Inspector General
Office of Planning, Policy, Regulations, and Statistics
Office of the Secretary
Police and Correctional Training Commissions
Public Information Office
Sundry Claims Board
Facilities
= Closed facilities
=Herman L. Toulson Correctional Facility - Jessup
Jessup Pre-Release Unit - Jessup
Maryland House of Correction - Jessup
Brockbridge Correctional Facility - Jessup
= Proposed facilities
=New Youth Detention Facility (Baltimore City)
New Women's Detention Facility (Baltimore City)
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. In December 2014, former Governor Martin O'Malley commuted the sentences of all Maryland death row inmates to life sentences.
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.
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.
See also
List of law enforcement agencies in Maryland
National:
List of United States state correction agencies
Lists of United States state prisons
References
External links
Official website
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- Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
- North Branch Correctional Institution
- Jessup Correctional Institution
- Eastern Correctional Institution
- Chesapeake Detention Facility
- Maryland Correctional Institution for Women
- Department of public safety
- Western Correctional Institution
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- Roxbury Correctional Institution
