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Jail Name:
Metropolitan Transition Center - MTC
Jail Type:
State Prison
State:
Maryland
County:
BALTIMORE CITY
City:
Baltimore
Source:
Wikipedia
Description:
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]
Opened:
1812
Security Class:
Maximum Pre-Trial
Address:
954 Forrest Street
Zip Code:
21202
Location:
954 Forrest St, Baltimore, MD 21202
Email:
dccfm@dpscs.state.md.us
Phone 1:
410-230-1452
Fax 1:
410-385-1049
Fax 2:
410-209-4105
Imate Gender:
Male Offenders
Population:
1762
Capacity:
1400
Judicial District:
Baltimore, MD
954 Forrest Street, 21202, Baltimore, Maryland
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Visiting Holiday:
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