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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="11-106" title_number="11" title_name="Local Correctional Facilities" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Establishment of Local Correctional Facilities">
  <level label="a">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The contract may provide for the housing and rehabilitation in a local correctional facility of incarcerated individuals sentenced to State correctional facilities under conditions agreed on by all parties.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Secretary may not approve a contract unless the contract provides:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>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</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>that the local correctional facility is in substantial compliance with the minimum mandatory standards described in § 8–103(a) of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>In the absence of any contract, court order, or consent decree, incarcerated individuals 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.</text>
  </level>
</section>
