Terms Used In Maryland Code, CORRECTIONAL SERVICES 11-106

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) On approving local correctional facility plans that require State financial assistance, the Secretary shall enter into a written contract with the county or counties involved setting forth the rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities of all parties.

(b) The contract may provide for the housing and rehabilitation in a local correctional facility of inmates sentenced to State correctional facilities under conditions agreed on by all parties.

(c) The Secretary may not approve a contract unless the contract provides:

(1) for a periodic review of the facilities and rehabilitation and training programs of the local correctional facility by the Maryland Commission on Correctional Standards; and

(2) that the local correctional facility is in substantial compliance with the minimum mandatory standards described in § 8-103(a) of this article.

(d) In the absence of any contract, court order, or consent decree, inmates sentenced to the jurisdiction of the Division of Correction may not be housed in a local correctional facility for more than 30 days while awaiting transfer to the Division of Correction.