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within the discretion of the Court as to whether the sentence im-
posed shall be of a definite or an indeterminate length. Of the 167
women now confined, approximately one half are serving indetermi-
nate sentences. A sewing shop is operated as a unit of the State
Use Industries. Approximately ten acres of garden have been devel-
oped by the women for the institutional table (Code 1947 Supp., Art.
27, sec. 761A,-761c).

Expenditures, 1949 ................------$123,258.05

Appropriation, 1950 -.........--.... 161,365.00

Staff: 27.

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DIVISION OF PAROLE AND PROBATION

Chairman: F. Murray Benson, 1951

Hall Hammond, Attorney General
Charles F. Snyder, Chief Probation Officer, Supreme

Bench of Baltimore City
Harold E. Donnell, Superintendent of Prisons.

F. Murray Benson, Director
John G. Eggen, Executive Secretary
State Office Building, Annapolis Telephone: Annapolis 2304

The Division of Parole and Probation was created as the successor
to the Parole Commissioner. The Board of Parole and Probation is
charged with responsibility for the administration of parole in
Maryland. The Governor, with the consent of the Senate, appoints
the Director, for a term of two years, who automatically becomes the
Chairman of the Board of Parole and Probation. The Director, the
Attorney General, the State Superintendent of Prisons, and the Chief
Probation Officer of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City constitute
the Board. The last three members serve ex-officio and without pay.
It is the Director who has the sole power to recommend persons to the
Governor for release on parole, but the Division makes such investi-
gations of applicants for executive clemency as the Governor directs.
The Governor has the sole power to pardon. The Director serves also
as Administrator of the Inter-State Compact for the reciprocal super-
vision of parolees and probationers. The Director also controls the
releases of prisoners serving indeterminate sentences at the State
Reformatory for Women and at the State Reformatory for Males, who
have been recommended for his consideration by the Board of Correc-
tion. The Division makes available the services of its investigating
officers to the Circuit Courts and the Criminal Court of Baltimore
City. In addition to the Annapolis office, there are offices located in
Baltimore City, Chestertown, Hagerstown and Upper Marlboro (Code
1939, Art. 41, sees. 75-78, 82-86).

The Inter-State Compact places under the jurisdiction of the Ad-
ministrator, during the parole or probationary period, any person con-
victed of an offense within the State of Maryland who may thereafter
be placed on probation or released on parole to reside in another
State. Similarly, the administrator decides whether parolees and
probationers from another State may reside in Maryland. The
Division is currently carrying about 189 cases under the Inter-State
Compact (Code 1989, Art. 41, sec. 89)

Expenditures, 1949 ........ .........$124,624.30

Appropriation, 1950 .......................... 169,485.00

Staff: 38.