Nancy Moran
Independent Prisoner Advocate
550 Saint Mary Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
REVISED STRUCTURAL PARADIGM
Proposed Preliminary Draft submitted March 22, 1999
- A. Department of Public Safety Headquarters
- 1. Staffing/Structure of DPSCS Headquarters
- 2. Powers and Duties of the Secretary's Office
- 3. Organization Chart(s) - Inclusion by reference
- a - Graphical ("boxes")
- b - Linear ("list form")
- B. Functional Responsibilities with corresponding Units of the
Department of Public Safety
- 1. Facilities Management
- a - New Construction
- b - Revisions/restructuring of existing structures
- c - Telecommunications
- d - Other:
- Procurement
- Fleet Management and Transportation
- 2. Budget and Management (with input from Facilities Management Unit)
- a - Capital Budget
- b - Operating Budgets of Operating Units
- Operating Budgets by Facility
- 1) Major prisons
- 2) Pre-Release System
- 3) Home Detention and Correctional Options
- 4) Division of Parole and Probation ("post-release")
- 3. Human Resources (formerly, "Personnel")
- a - Job Description Development
- b - Salary, Wage, Fringe Benefit Development (and Budgeting)
- c - Advertising and Recruitment
- d - Hiring Process
- e - Referral and Evaluation of Training Needs
- f - Management of Employee Termination Matters
- Voluntary
- Involuntary (including appeals processes)
- 4. Information gathering/information dispersion
- a - Information Technology and Communications Division
- b - Division of Research and Statistics
- c - Public Relations
- 5. Reports and Reporting - ongoing or periodically
- a - As required by Maryland or Federal Law
- b - As needed by police and criminal justice agencies
- c - As mandated as part of the Information Technology Function
- d - As required or requested by the Sentencing Commission
- 6. Monitoring, Assessment - (Commission on Correctional Standards)
- a - Development of Standards
- b - Application of Standards
- 7. Training and Training Development
- a - Police Training Commission
- b - Correctional Training Commission
- 8. Victim Services, Victim Relations and Victim Coordination
- C. Persons Within the Jurisdiction of the Department - Defined
- 1. Sentencing by the Judicial Branch
- a - Sentencing Commission input and interface
- b - Diminution Credits over the course of continuous incarceration
- 2. Assignment to Departmental Components
- 3. Transfer among Departmental Components
- 4. Local Detention Centers - Relationship thereto
- a - Transfers of Inmates to and from
- 5. Release of Offenders - Manner and Methods
- a - Leave
- b - Parole (Parole Commission)
- c - Mandatory Release
- d - Expiration
- D. Persons assigned to DPSCS Custody
- 1. Pretrial Detention and Services (Baltimore City only)
- a - Central Booking Facility
- b - Baltimore City Detention Center
- 2. Existing Custody Levels (Division of Correction)
- a - Supermaximum
- b - Medium, Maximum
- c - Pre-Release System
- d - Boot Camp
- e - Home Detention Unit
- 3. Correctional Options Program
- E. Management of Persons Under Custody
- 1. Booking / Reception from Judicial Branch
- 2. Classification - Implementation/Assignment of Custody Levels
- 3. Adjudication of Remedies (Inmate Grievance Office)
- 4. Financial Management of Individual Affairs
- 5. Inmate Work Programs, Institutional or State Use Industries
- 6. Support Functions and Contracts with Private Sector Entities
- a - Medical Care
- b - Food and Food Service
- c - Telecommunications
- d - Other: Commissary purchasing and management
- e - Other: Routine maintenance
- f - Other: Mailroom responsibilities
- F. Inmate Finance and Budget
- 1. Inmate Welfare Fund
- 2. Inmate Commissary Accounts
- 3. Inmate Reserve Account
- 4. Reimbursement of Local Detention Facilities
- G. Interface with Entities Separate from the Department (and
cross-relationships regarding Reports and Reporting)
- 1. Legal Counsel - Role of Attorney General
- 2. Sentencing Commission (Executive/Judicial branch)
- 3. Department of Juvenile Services
- 4. Department of Budget and Management
- 5. Department of Education
- 6. DHMH and other State agencies
- 7. Miscellaneous Advisory Boards (as listed on Internet site)
- Sundry Claims Board
- Citizen's Advisory Committees for Corrections
(Hagerstown, Jessup, Somerset, Baltimore)
- State Use Industries Advisory Committee
- Institutional Board of Review - Patuxent
- Citizens Advisory Board - Patuxent
- Criminal Justice Information Advisory Board
- Handgun Permit Review Board
- 9-1-1 Emergency Board
- H. LEGISLATION IMPACTING DPSCS STRUCTURES
HEARD DURING 1999 SESSION
- 1. Sentencing Commission (sb388/hb602)
- 2. Internal Investigation Unit (hb0125)
- 3. Public Safety Technology Fund (sb148/hb176)
- 4. SUI Management Council (sb0174)
- 5. Criminal Injuries Compensation Board - Claims (hb305)
- 6. Criminal Procedure - Booking Process - Costs (hb525)
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