MCIH ~ Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown

Facility Administration

Warden: Joseph Sacchet, CCE
Assistant Warden: D. Kenneth Horning
Chief of Security: David Wade

Address

18601 Roxbury Road
Hagerstown, Maryland 21746
240-420-1000

Information

Security Level: Medium
Year Opened: 1932


The Maryland Correctional Institution--Hagerstown is an adult male correctional institution located just south of Hagerstown. It is the oldest of three state prisons in the area, located on some 800 acres of land, just off Maryland Route 65 on Roxbury Road. The construction of the facility, adjacent houses and several barns was initiated in the early 1930's with the use of inmate labor. The limestone used in construction was cut and hauled from nearby quarries and laid in place by inmates under the watchful eye of expert stonemasons. The entire construction of the facility was not completed until 1942.

Today, MCI-H is classified as a medium security facility and houses some 2,000 convicted felons. Since the construction of the main prison, some additional housing areas have been added which include a 128 bed dormitory unit, a 192 bed unit [used as a prototype for the construction of other state facilities now in use] which has double occupancy and three Quonset huts house 340 inmates in a dormitory environment. Eight annexes in the basement of the main building also provide housing for another 192 inmates, again in a dormitory setting. Most cells within the institution contain two inmates. Inmates on segregation or special custody are housed in single cells due to behavior or security concerns.

Visiting Information PLEASE SEE 2nd POST FOR CHANGES

General Population:

Monday and Friday
9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday
9:00 a.m.. - 3:00 p.m.

Administrative Segregation

Monday and Friday
9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Disciplinary Segregation:

Monday or Friday
9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

General Information:

Visitor registration begins at 8:30 a.m. Visitors must arrive at the Visitor's Center prior to 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Monday and Friday. Visitors must arrive at the Visitor's Center prior to 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. Every effort shall be made to provide a one hour visit (subject to space availability). A visitor's name must appear on the inmate's visiting list or the visit shall not be permitted.

General population inmates are allowed two (2) visits per week, with one (1) additional visit on State Holidays. You may have a visit in the morning and again in the afternoon; however, this shall count as two separate visits. On Saturday, Sundays and Holidays when a visitor signs out of the Visitor's Center upon completion of a visit, they shall not be permitted to register again to start a second visit with the same inmate they visited earlier that day. The visitor may register to visit a different inmate. That same inmate may receive a another visit from a different party, providing he has not received is allotted visits for that week.

A five-day (5) grace period will be extended to those inmates from the time they have been placed on Administrative Segregation or Disciplinary Segregation, for visits to occur on any scheduled visiting days. This provision may be applied as the visit does not pose a threat to the safety and security of the institution, staff or visitors.

Disciplinary Segregation inmates shall receive only one (1) visit per week. Segregation visits will be held in the main building only.

Visiting on weekend shall be on a digital basis. That is, inmates with commitment numbers ending in odd digits (1,3,5,7 and 9) may receive visits on an odd numbered days. Inmates with commitment numbers ending in even digits (0,2,4,6,8) may receive visits on even numbered days.

{If anyone has any additional information on this location that you could add, it would greatly be appreciated!}



http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/locations/mcih.shtml

MCI-H no longer allows a visit in the morning and in the afternoon because I tried to do it and was very rudely told they haven't been doing that now for a couple of years. I explained to the CO that I recieved the information off the website and he sat there and looked it up. He says that the website is very outdated, but basically everything else is the same. The 2:00 cut off time that applies on the Mondays and Fridays visits now applies on the weekend as well. The 10:00 cut off time in the morning now longer applies since they no longer have the morning and afternoon visits. Just a heads up for anyone trying to visit, I see this happen to people all of the time, try not to arrive between 9:30 and 11:00 because they start running the lunch lines through and they will allow no visitors in during this. So if you get there at 9:45, even though lunch isn't untill 10 your chances of getting called back before then are slim and then you will have to sit there and wait all the way untill they are done serving lunch.

Thanks for the update....hopefully they will make the changes on there site to reflect the current times.

Happy New Year!

i am glad you are able to see your loved ones

is there a place on here where you can go to find out what they are in for

There is a place online that you can view public records for anyone. As long as you have their first and last name. It is casesearch.court.state.md.us no need for www in front of it. It will get you to the site. And look up a persons civil and criminal cases in most counties. I find it very helpful. They update it but I am not sure of how offten. I keep looking for new information about my former fiance. But you have to look into the case in order to see if it has any new information. The date on the list area is when the first filing date, mostly. I hope this is helpful! It is a goverment/state site and free! What a great thing! Free!
~Gmanswife2006

How can you find the inmates release date or mugshot. oh and how often are they allowed to call?