- (a) The creation of the Division is based on the findings and policies set forth in this section.
(b)
- (1) Each year a large number of individuals have criminal charges placed against them in Baltimore City and remain on pretrial status until these charges are adjudicated.
- (2) Many of the individuals on pretrial status were formerly committed to the Baltimore City Jail.
- (c) There is an important public need to centralize and coordinate the provision of services to individuals on a pretrial status in Baltimore City.
- (d) Baltimore City does not have the financial resources to fund a local correctional facility at a level sufficient to meet the needs of those incarcerated.
- (e) The State recognizes the need to provide effective and efficient services to the public through management of the pretrial population in Baltimore City.
Added by Acts 1999, c. 54, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1999.
Formerly Art. 41, § 4-1401.