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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="11-712" title_number="11" title_name="Local Correctional Facilities" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Individual County Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only in Frederick County.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Sheriff shall:</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 administer 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:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>appears before the court after being charged and detained on bond; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>meets the eligibility requirements of paragraph (4) of this subsection.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The court may make the order at the imposition of bond, on review of bond, or any other time during the individual’s pretrial detention.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>An individual is eligible for the pretrial release program if the individual:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is recommended to the court for placement in the program by the program staff;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>has no other charges pending in any jurisdiction; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>is not in detention for:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a crime of violence; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the crime of escape under § 9–404 of the Criminal Law Article.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Sheriff’s Department may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>establish and direct a work release program; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>adopt guidelines for the operation of the program.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>At the time of sentencing or at any time during an individual’s confinement, the sentencing judge may order that an individual participate in the work release program, subject to the guidelines adopted by the Sheriff.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the sentencing judge is unable to act at the time of an incarcerated individual’s petition for work release, another judge of the committing court may order that the incarcerated individual participate in the work release program.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In ordering an incarcerated individual to participate in the work release program, the court may allow the incarcerated individual to leave actual confinement to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>work at gainful, private employment;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>seek gainful, private employment; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>participate in an educational, rehabilitative, or training program in the county.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Unless the committing court directs otherwise, an incarcerated individual shall be confined in the detention center when not participating in the work release program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Sheriff or Sheriff’s designee shall collect the earnings of an incarcerated individual in the work release program, less payroll deductions required by law.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>From the earnings of the incarcerated individual, the Sheriff shall deduct and disburse:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>an amount determined to be the cost to the county for food, lodging, and clothing for the incarcerated individual;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the actual cost of necessary food and travel and other expenses incidental to the incarcerated individual’s participation in the program;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>any amount a court imposes for a fine, cost, or restitution;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>any amount that the incarcerated individual is legally obligated or reasonably desires to pay for support of a dependent; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>if applicable, any amount that a court orders the incarcerated individual to repay to the State or to the county for the services of an attorney appointed by the court.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The Sheriff shall:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>credit to the incarcerated individual’s account the remaining balance; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>dispose of the balance in the incarcerated individual’s account as the incarcerated individual reasonably requests and as the Sheriff approves.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>If an incarcerated individual violates a trust or a condition that a judge or the Sheriff establishes for conduct or employment, after an administrative hearing that upholds the violation, the incarcerated individual is subject to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>removal from the work release program; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>cancellation of any earned diminution of the incarcerated individual’s term of confinement.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Sheriff 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">
      <text>At the time of sentencing or at any time during an individual’s confinement, the sentencing judge may require that the individual participate in the home detention program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An incarcerated individual is eligible for the home detention program if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the sentencing judge recommended that the incarcerated individual participate in the program; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the individual 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>
</section>
