 Maryland Penitentiary, Gate 3 | |
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| Location | 954 Forrest Street Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Status | open |
| Security class | Maximum pre-trial |
| Opened | 1812 |
| Managed by | Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services |
The Maryland Metropolitan Transition Center (MTC), formerly known as the historic "Maryland Penitentiary", is a maximum pre-trial security Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services prison located in Baltimore facing Greenmount Avenue between Forrest Street and East Madison Street. It was established in 1811 as the first prison in the state and the second of its kind in the country and the original buildings faced towards East Madison Street above the east bank of the Jones Falls stream and adjacent to the old stone walls of the Baltimore City Jail (now renamed the Baltimore City Detention Center), earlier established in 1801, rebuilt in 1857–1859, and later in 1959–1965.[1]
Now known as the MTC, the prison still houses Maryland's now decommissioned death chamber. The Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center, across the road, housed male "death row" inmates until June 2010, when they were moved to the North Branch Correctional Institution near Cumberland, Maryland in the western portion of the state in Allegany County, Maryland.[2]
- ^ Agency History for Maryland Penitentiary Archived 2006-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, Maryland State Archives.
- ^ Calvert, Scott and Kate Smith. "Death row inmates transferred to W. Maryland Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today." The Baltimore Sun. June 25, 2010. Retrieved on September 22, 2010.