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  2. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

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    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, [ 1] including the operation of state prisons. It has its headquarters in Towson, Maryland, an unincorporated community that is also the seat of Baltimore County, Maryland, United ...

  3. Capital punishment in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment was abolished via the legislative process on May 2, 2013, in the U.S. state of Maryland. [1] The Metropolitan Transition Center still houses Maryland's now defunct execution chamber. The death penalty had been in use in the state or, more precisely, its predecessor colony since June 20, 1638, when two men were hanged for ...

  4. Chesapeake Detention Facility - Wikipedia

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    Since April 4, 2012, the state manages the facility under contract with the United States Marshals Service and does not hold state prisoners at CDF. It was built in 1988, and is located at 401 East Madison Street in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Prior to February, 2011, inmates housed at MCAC were confined to their cells 23 hours a day ...

  5. List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 74 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois . Robert Gregory Bowers.

  6. Metropolitan Transition Center - Wikipedia

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    The Maryland Metropolitan Transition Center ( MTC ), formerly known as the historic "Maryland Penitentiary", is a maximum pre-trial security Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services prison located in Baltimore facing Greenmount Avenue between Forrest Street and East Madison Street. It was established in 1811 as the first ...

  7. Maryland House of Correction - Wikipedia

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    The Maryland House of Correction, nicknamed "The Cut" or "The House", was a Maryland Department of Corrections state maximum security prison in an unincorporated area in Maryland. The prison opened in 1879 and became infamous for the high levels of violence that took place inside its walls. The state, under Governor Martin O'Malley, closed the ...

  8. Lists of United States state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Alabama; Alaska; Arizona; Arkansas; California; Colorado; Connecticut; Delaware; Florida; Georgia; Hawaii; Idaho; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Louisiana ...

  9. North Branch Correctional Institution - Wikipedia

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    North Branch Correctional Institution (NBCI) is a high-tech, maximum security prison or "hyper-max prison" operated by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in Cresaptown census-designated place, unincorporated Allegany County, United States, near Cumberland.