Everyone arrested in the City of Baltimore, or arrested on a warrant from the City, comes through The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services detention facilities.

The Baltimore Pretrial Complex annually holds more detainees, including teenagers facing adult charges, than any local jurisdiction in Maryland and it offers a wide array of mental health, social, educational, recreational, spiritual, and rehabilitative programs.

The Pretrial Release Services Program serves clients in four areas: investigative, case management, case diversion, and detention. The program assesses criminal history, provides community supervision to defendants awaiting trial, and classifies detainee for bail review based on risk. 

A treatment program started in 2008 within the detention facilities received national recognition for being the first state prison system in the country to be awarded licenses for methadone use from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Major violence-reduction efforts throughout the department have resulted in low occurrences of serious weapon assaults against staff in detention facilities in the City. The department’s contraband crackdown has resulted in seizures of controlled dangerous substances, cell phones and other items that often incite violence among detainees.

For location, identification number and status of offenders currently in detention please contact the Customer Service office at 410-545-8120, 410-545-8121, or 410-545-8128.