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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 12.16.01.03" title_num="12" subtitle_num="16" chapter_num="01" heading="Organization and Staffing.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The Commissioner, in cooperation with the Commissioner of Correction, shall organize and operate a unified home detention unit.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The program provides an alternative to the incarceration of select pretrial inmates charged with the commission of nonviolent crimes while awaiting trial. Participating inmates are:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Personally supervised;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Monitored electronically; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Housed in approved residences with directed and controlled community access for purposes of:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Treatment;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Counseling; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Employment.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>The home detention program shall consist of the following programmatic elements:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Screening;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Placement;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Electronic monitoring;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Case work services;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Employment and community services;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Substance abuse testing; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Service fees.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Under Correctional Services Article, §5-201(c), Annotated Code of Maryland, the Division has the same authority with regard to the custody of its inmates and the operation of the Division of Pretrial Detention and Services as the Division of Correction.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>