Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services 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
- Emergency Number Systems Board
- Handgun Permit Review Board
- Inmate Grievance Office
- Internal Investigative Division
- Information Technology and Communications Division
- 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
| 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 |
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 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.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.