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<subtitle article="gcs" title_number="4" subtitle_number="1" title_name="Patuxent Institution" subtitle_name="Definitions">
  <section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="4-101" title_number="4" title_name="Patuxent Institution" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions">
    <level label="a">
      <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>“Board of Review” means the institutional Board of Review created under § 4-205 of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Correction.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="d">
      <text>“Director” means the Director of the Patuxent Institution.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="e">
      <level label="1">
        <text>“Eligible person” means an individual who:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>has been convicted of a crime and is serving a sentence of imprisonment with at least 3 years remaining on the sentence;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>has an intellectual impairment or emotional imbalance;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="iii">
          <text>is likely to respond favorably to the programs and services that the Institution provides;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="iv">
          <text>can better respond to remediation through those programs and services than by other incarceration; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="v">
          <text>meets the eligibility criteria that the Secretary establishes under § 4–208(b) of this title.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>“Eligible person” does not include an individual who:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>is serving two or more sentences of imprisonment for life under § 2–201, former § 2–303, or § 2–304 of the Criminal Law Article;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>is serving one or more sentences of imprisonment for life when a court or jury has found under former § 2–303 of the Criminal Law Article, beyond a reasonable doubt, that one or more aggravating circumstances existed; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="iii">
          <text>has been convicted of murder in the first degree, rape in the first degree, or a sexual offense in the first degree, unless the sentencing judge, at the time of sentencing or in the exercise of the judge’s revisory power under the Maryland Rules, recommends that the individual be referred to the Institution for evaluation.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="f">
      <text>“Evaluation team” means a team of at least three professional employees of the Institution, one of whom shall be a social worker, one of whom shall be a psychologist, and one of whom shall be a psychiatrist.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="g">
      <text>“Institution” means the Patuxent Institution.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="h">
      <text>“Patuxent programs” includes the eligible person program as defined in § 4-301 of this title, and the Patuxent Youth Program as defined in § 4-401 of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="i">
      <text>“Remediation” means treatment for specific areas of mental and social deficiencies that are highly related to criminal behavior.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="j">
      <text>“Victim” means:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>an individual who suffers personal physical injury or death as a direct result of a crime; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>if the victim is deceased, a designated family member of the victim.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>