Maryland Correctional Training Center

The Maryland Correctional Training Center is a mixed-custody state prison that houses minimum-security, medium-security, and pre-release inmates. It can house up to 2,730 inmates, and the average time at the facility for an inmate is 4.5 years.

Prison Insights

Visiting Hours and Rules

Visiting hours at Maryland Correctional Training Center are:

General Population

Monday, Saturday, and Sunday, from 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Visitor registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 2:00 p.m.

Duration:  one hour (subject to space availability)

Disciplinary Segregation

Monday 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. One non-contact visit per week.

Harold E. Donnel Building and Emergency Housing (HED/EHU)

Saturday, Sunday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Visitor registration: 8:30 a.m.- 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Monday: 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Visitor registration: 8:30 a.m.- 9:45 a.m.

General Visiting Rules

Use of restroom facilities is prohibited during visitation.  If either the inmate or a visitor requires the use of the restroom, the visit will be terminated at that time.  Please keep this in mind when visiting with small children.

All visitors, 16 years of age and older, must have a photo ID to be allowed to visit.

Children (18 years of age and younger) visiting the inmate must be immediate family to either the inmate or visitor and must be accompanied by a person 18 years of age or older who is on the inmate's visiting list.

A maximum of two visits are allowed per week and one visit per day. During the week of an authorized State holiday, inmates may receive three visits, providing one of the three visits occur on the holiday.

Each inmate is permitted up to three adults and three minor children. Segregation inmates are permitted up to two visitors. Children must be supervised by the adult visitors.

Visits on weekends will be on a "digital" basis. Those inmates with SID numbers ending in even digits (0-2-4-6-8) may receive visits on even numbered dates.

Those inmates with SID numbers ending in odd digits (1-3-5-7-9) may receive visits on odd numbered dates.

During the month where both weekend dates are odd numbered, such at 31st and 1st, inmates may receive a visit one of these days, but not both days.

Protective Custody inmates are afforded visiting considerations similar to general population unless otherwise stipulated by the warden.

Dress Code

All visitors, including children, must dress appropriately for visitation.  All clothing must cover you from the neck to the kneecaps.

The following types of clothing are not allowed to be worn:

• tube tops, tank tops, or halter tops
• see-through clothing
• mini-skirts, mini-dresses, shorts, skorts, or culottes (at or above the kneecap)
• form-fitting clothes such as leotards, spandex, and leggings
• clothes that expose a person's midriff, side, or back
• tops or dresses that have revealing necklines and/or excessive splits
• coats, jackets, shawls, and scarves will be placed in an appropriate area (Exceptions will be made for religious headdress)
• shower shoes or flip flops

Visitors must remove jewelryㅡincluding tongue, ear, and facial piercingsㅡwith the exception of wedding ring sets or medic alert jewelry and store them in the lockers that are provided.

How to Call an Inmate

How to Send Money

The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services–Division of Correction only accepts Money Orders. NOTE: Cashier Checks, Personal Checks, Official Checks, Bill Pay Checks, Bank Checks, Non-Electronic Transfers, and Non-US Currency Checks/Money Orders will not be accepted.

You must include the following info on the money order:

• The Inmate’s Name, Institution, and Inmate SID # (State Identification Number).
• Sender’s Name and Address.

Please use Black or Blue Ink pen only on the money orders and neatly PRINT the required information.

Money Orders should be made payable to the Inmate (Full Committed Name; no AKA’s, etc) and sent to:

Inmate Name, DOC Number
Maryland Correctional Training Center
P.O. Box 17111
Baltimore, MD 21297-0382

​Programs For ​Inmates

Numerous educational courses are available to inmates at the Maryland Correctional Training Center. They can earn their GED and take vocational courses in electrical wiring, carpentry, engine and auto body repair, plumbing, masonry, and office technology.

Inmates can also participate in the correctional enterprises program that allows them to work repairing and remanufacturing cartridges for laser printers, copiers, and fax machines. They also produce corrugated cartons and office work partitions.

The restorative justice program, Public Safety Works (PSW), provides employment skills as well as an opportunity for offenders to give back to the community they have harmed.

PSW is also a bridge to meaningful employment for the inmates, helping develop basic everyday skills needed to be an effective employee such as learning to respect a supervisor and working as a team.

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Careers at Maryland Correctional Training Center