Section 3-811 – Family Leave
(a) The Commissioner or Commissioner’s designee may grant family leave to allow an inmate to visit the inmate’s family for a reasonable time if the inmate: (1) is confined in a correctional facility in the Division; (2) is classified to be in prerelease status; and (3) is recommended by the correctional facility’s case management team and managing official. (b) (1) When […]
Section 3-607 – Providing Case Record and Other Information to Local Police
(a) The Division shall provide a copy of a case record maintained under § 3-601 of this subtitle to a police officer who presents an order for a copy of the record signed by the superintendent or other officer in charge of police in a municipal corporation or county. (b) On or before the 28th day of […]
Section 3-608 – Exchange of Information
(a) To increase efficiency in the treatment, management, and rehabilitation of inmates confined in correctional facilities in the Division, the Division and the Division of Parole and Probation shall exchange records and any other pertinent information that relates to an inmate. (b) The Division and the Division of Parole and Probation shall establish the procedures and methods […]
Section 3-609 – Financial Accounts of Inmates
(a) A correctional facility in the Division shall maintain a reserve financial account and a spending financial account for each inmate in the correctional facility. (b) The accounts of an inmate may be charged for: (1) the reasonable value of any State property that the inmate: (i) willfully or maliciously destroys; or (ii) destroys as the result of gross negligence; […]
Section 3-611 – Adoption of Regulations on Inmate Training and Job Pilot Program
// EFFECTIVE UNTIL JUNE 30, 2028 PER CHAPTER 677 OF 2021 // (a) The Commissioner shall adopt regulations to implement the Inmate Training and Job Pilot Program established under Title 24, Subtitle 13 of the Education Article. (b) The regulations adopted under this section shall include terms of deduction for Pilot Program participation and, if appropriate, provisions […]
Section 3-701 – “Term of Confinement” Defined
In this subtitle, “term of confinement” means: (1) the length of the sentence, for a single sentence; or (2) the period from the first day of the sentence that begins first through the last day of the sentence that ends last, for: (i) concurrent sentences; (ii) partially concurrent sentences; (iii) consecutive sentences; or (iv) a combination of concurrent and consecutive sentences.
Section 3-702 – Inmates Entitled to Diminution Credits
(a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, § 3–711 of this subtitle, and Title 7, Subtitle 5 of this article, an inmate committed to the custody of the Commissioner is entitled to a diminution of the inmate’s term of confinement as provided under this subtitle. (b) An inmate who is serving a sentence for […]
Section 3-703 – Concurrent Sentence in Foreign Jurisdiction
Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, an inmate who serves a concurrent Maryland sentence in a foreign jurisdiction may be allowed diminution credits under this subtitle only from the date that the inmate is received into the physical custody of the Commissioner.
Section 3-704 – Diminution Credits — Good Conduct
(a) An inmate shall be allowed a deduction in advance from the inmate’s term of confinement. (b) (1) The deduction allowed under subsection (a) of this section shall be calculated: (i) from the first day of commitment to the custody of the Commissioner through the last day of the inmate’s term of confinement; (ii) except as provided in paragraph (2) […]
Section 3-705 – Diminution Credits — Work Tasks
(a) (1) In addition to any other deductions allowed under this subtitle, an inmate may be allowed a deduction of 5 days from the inmate’s term of confinement for each calendar month during which the inmate manifests satisfactory performance of assigned work tasks. (2) The deduction described in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be calculated: (i) from the […]