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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="11-703" title_number="11" title_name="Local Correctional Facilities" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Individual County Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Administrator” means the Administrator of the county’s local correctional facilities.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Participant” means an individual who participates in a program under this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Program” means, unless the context requires otherwise, a rehabilitation, home detention, pretrial release, or work program established and conducted under this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section applies only in Anne Arundel County.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a provision of this section is inconsistent with another provision in the Code, the provision of this section controls.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The privileges and penalties set forth in subsection (e)(1)(v) and (vi) of this section are the exclusive privileges and penalties that relate to the length of sentence of a participant in a program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>While released from confinement under the terms of a program, a participant is not an agent, employee, or servant of the county.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Administrator shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>establish and administer a home detention program; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>adopt regulations for the program.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>When an individual who is convicted of a crime is sentenced or at any time during the individual’s confinement as an incarcerated individual, a judge may allow the individual to participate in the home detention program.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>In addition to participation at the recommendation of a judge under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, the Administrator may place the incarcerated individual in the home detention program unless the court has ordered otherwise.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (4) of this subsection, an incarcerated individual is eligible for the home detention program if the incarcerated individual:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is recommended for the program by a judge or placed in the program by the Administrator under paragraph (2) of this subsection; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>has no other charges pending in any jurisdiction.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>An incarcerated individual is not eligible for the home detention program if the incarcerated individual:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is serving a sentence for a crime of violence; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>has been found guilty of the crime of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>child abuse under § 3–601 or § 3–602 of the Criminal Law Article; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>escape under § 9–404 of the Criminal Law Article.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>While participating in the home detention program, an incarcerated individual is responsible for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the costs of the incarcerated individual’s medical care and related expenses; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the costs of the incarcerated individual’s lodging, food, clothing, transportation, restitution, and taxes.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The Administrator may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>collect a reasonable fee from each incarcerated individual participating in the home detention program; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>waive or reduce the fee.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>The Administrator may determine the maximum number of participants in the home detention program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>An incarcerated individual who knowingly violates a term or condition of the home detention program is subject to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the penalties provided under § 11–726 of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>any other disciplinary action authorized under law.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Administrator may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>establish, for the rehabilitation and training of an incarcerated individual who is sentenced to imprisonment in a local correctional facility, a program that enables the incarcerated individual to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>attend a vocational or educational institution;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>work at gainful, private employment; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>participate in any other training or rehabilitation program;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>establish eligibility criteria for participation in a program;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>release an eligible incarcerated individual from actual confinement to participate in a program;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>establish any other training or rehabilitation program;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>reduce a participant’s sentence 1 day for each day that the participant:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>performs with exceptional industry, application, and skill any industrial, agricultural, or administrative task assigned to the participant; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>performs with satisfactory industry, application, and progress in the program to which the participant is assigned; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>after an administrative hearing, cancel any earned diminution of an incarcerated individual’s term of confinement if the incarcerated individual violates a regulation adopted under this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Administrator shall adopt regulations to conduct each program.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>In adopting the regulations, the Administrator shall consider the safety of the public and the security of a local correctional facility.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Except as provided in subsection (g)(2) of this section, if a condition of the sentence imposed by a court on an incarcerated individual is inconsistent with a regulation adopted under this subsection, the condition imposed by the court controls as to that incarcerated individual.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>While not released from confinement under the terms of a program, each participant shall be confined in a local correctional facility.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Administrator or Administrator’s designee shall collect each participant’s total earnings, less payroll deductions.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>From the participant’s earnings, the Administrator or designee shall pay:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>voluntary or court–ordered payments for support of a dependent; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>court–ordered payments for restitution.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The Administrator may:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>deduct a reasonable fee from the earnings of each incarcerated individual participating in the program; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>waive or reduce the fee.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The Administrator or designee shall:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>credit to the participant’s account any remaining balance; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>dispose of the balance as requested by the participant and as approved by the Administrator.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A participant who knowingly violates a regulation adopted under this section:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is subject to removal from the program;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>after an administrative hearing, is subject to cancellation of any earned diminution of the incarcerated individual’s term of confinement; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>is subject to the provisions of § 11–726 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Administrator may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>establish a pretrial release program that offers alternatives to pretrial detention; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>adopt regulations to carry out the program.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A court may order an individual to participate in the pretrial release program if the individual appears before the court after being charged and detained on bond.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The court may enter the order at the imposition of bond, on review of bond, or any other time during the individual’s pretrial detention.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At the time of sentencing or at any time during an individual’s confinement, the sentencing judge or the Administrator may allow an individual who is convicted of a crime and sentenced to imprisonment to participate in a program established under subsection (e) of this section, provided that the individual meets the eligibility criteria established by the Administrator for participation in that program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Subject to the eligibility criteria established by the Administrator, a judge may order that an individual participate in a program established under subsection (e) of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Administrator may not allow an individual to participate in a program established under subsection (e) of this section if a court order prohibits the individual from participating in that program.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A court may require an individual who is convicted of a crime to satisfy a fine or court costs by participating in a work program established under the jurisdiction of the Division of Parole and Probation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An individual who participates in the work program shall receive credit of at least the federal minimum wage per hour toward the fine and court costs.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>If the Administrator establishes and operates a community service program authorized by §§ 8–701 through 8–711 of this article, the Administrator may charge a reasonable fee to each individual participating in the program.</text>
  </level>
</section>
