Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals

HB 667 requires Maryland to create a dedicated facility for female incarcerated individuals transitioning from prison, directly affecting women at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women eligible for prerelease. The bill mandates a separate facility with specific security features (based on low violence/escape risk and good behavior), located in Baltimore City on at least 3 acres away from other prisons, and designed to accommodate 1.25 times the current eligible population. It sets strict deadlines for planning (by June 2021), construction (starting September 2021), and operation (by June 2023), with detailed requirements for housing, accessibility, program spaces, and medical services. The Department of General Services must oversee procurement, and the Correctional Ombudsman must verify compliance with these requirements.