Department of Parole and Probation

Resources for Incarcerated Individuals and their Families and Friends

Maintaining and improving relationships between incarcerated individuals and their families, friends, and loved ones is one of the Maryland's Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) key initiatives. Strengthening this bond offers a support net that can help incarcerated individuals not only achieve success after they leave DPSCS, but also heal their families and social support systems.

INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL VISITATION SERVICES

Maryland's Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) views visitation as a privilege that is an important part of incarcerated individual development and case management.

INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATION - PHONE SERVICES

The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) supports and embraces family, friends, and loved ones of those who have been incarcerated to maintain contact.

INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATION - MAIL SERVICES

Maryland's Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) permits and encourages incarcerated individuals to receive mail, reading materials, and publications consistent with the United States Constitution, Maryland State and Federal laws and regulations.

INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL BANKING SERVICES

Maryland's Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) uses Access Corrections® for the management and processing of all money orders sent to incarcerated individuals in all Maryland correctional institutions

INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL CARE PACKAGE SERVICES

Access Securepak® is the most comprehensive custom package program in the correctional industry. Access Securepak® is a program designed to allow family members, friends, and loved ones to send care packages to incarcerated individuals.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, offenders with disabilities housed in a Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) facility or under state community supervision can request reasonable accommodations and provisions.

The Department is committed to protecting the health of incarcerated individuals and staff.

The Department's leadership team continues to monitor the data regarding the spread of COVID-19 across its system and within Maryland communities. The need to modify operations and incarcerated individual movement may vary and change at any given time based on the need and/or severity of the health situation as indicated by the COVID-19 data and/or recommendations of the Maryland Department of Health.

Effective immediately, Maryland DPSCS will begin to transition back to in-person incarcerated individual visitation, with newly instated COVID-19 protocols and policies.

To review the new policies and procedures regarding in-person visitation, please click here.
To schedule an in-person visitation, please click here.

Resources for Individuals with Disabilities

DPSCS has established policies and procedures to ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities, including detainees and incarcerated individuals in the custody of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, individuals under the supervision of the Department's Division of Parole and Probation, and volunteers, visitors, or other members of the public will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability, as prohibited by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), with regard to facility access, services, programs, and activities provided by the Department.