Maryland legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Maryland SB187: Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (Monica Cooper Prerelease Act)
Status: Signed into law, May 31, 2026
Altering the required specifications for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of General Services to submit a certain timeline of deliverables for the planning, design, and construction of the facility to certain entities; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals; and requiring the Department of General Services to provide updates on the progress of the prerelease facility to certain legislative committees.
What the bill says
An act concerning Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Reentry Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (Monica Cooper Prerelease Act) FOR the purpose of altering certain provisions requiring a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals to instead require a reentry facility; altering the required specifications for a certain prerelease reentry prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals…
From the enrolled text, June 3, 2026:
AN ACT concerning Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Reentry Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (Monica Cooper Prerelease Act) FOR the purpose of altering certain provisions requiring a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals to instead require a reentry facility; altering the required specifications for a certain prerelease reentry prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of General Services to direct certain procurement processes for the construction of a certain prerelease reentry facility for female incarcerated individuals submit a certain timeline of deliverables to certain entities; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to implement certain comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease reentry services by a certain date meet certain requirements relating to the planning, construction, and operation of the prerelease facility; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor and the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to report certain information to the General Assembly; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to report certain information to certain legislative committees; requiring the Department of General Services to provide an update on the progress of design and construction of the prerelease facility to certain legislative committees; requiring the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman to review and verify the Department of Public …