At Maryland Correctional Enterprises (MCE), we feel that knowledge truly empowers you. Our shops are the foundation of our reentry program providing important hard and soft skills that improve our program participant’s quality of life and chances for success. We augment this daily work with an ever-expanding variety of classes that can address multiple areas of interest and need.

MCE has partnered with Bea Gaddy Family Centers to help feed those in need in the Greater Baltimore area for over 25 years.

For over 25 years, MCE has partnered with Bea Gaddy Family Centers to help feed those in need in the Greater Baltimore area. Annually, MCE participants debone and cook turkeys in preparation for Thanksgiving dinner hosted by Bea Gaddy for families in need. 

National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) is a nationwide celebration to showcase the opportunities that Registered Apprenticeships offer for Americans to develop workplace experience and skills that employers value. In honor of the 85th Anniversary of the National Apprenticeship Act, the U.S. Department of Labor is hosting the 8th Annual National Apprenticeship Week (NAW)! This year’s NAW will take place November 14-20, 2022, at hundreds of events across the country. These events give leaders in business, labor, workforce, education and other critical industries the opportunity to showcase their Registered Apprenticeship programs, apprentices, and facilities to career seekers in their local communities. Additionally, apprentices have a platform to share their apprenticeship experience and how it has transformed their lives.

For over 25 years, Maryland Correctional Enterprises' parternship with Bea Gaddy Family Centers helped feed those in need in the Greater Baltimore Metropolitan area. Bea Gaddy, a name many in Baltimore are familiar with, was not only a Baltimore City Council Member but an advocate for those in need. This partnership is part of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Service's restorative justice project -- giving individuals the opportunity to give back to the community.

Maryland Correctional Enterprises’ mission is to “provide structured employment and training activities for offenders in order to improve employability upon release, to enhance safety and security, to reduce prison idleness, to produce quality, saleable goods and services, and to be a financially self-supporting State Agency.

MCE’s inmate participants from the Hagerstown Meat Plant have been preparing turkeys for Baltimore’s Bea Gaddy Thanksgiving Dinner for over 30 years. Despite the pandemic, we are still doing our part to make this commendable community event happen by cooking 200 turkeys that will be distributed to those in need.

Maryland Correctional Enterprises’ mission is to “provide structured employment and training activities for offenders in order to improve employability upon release, to enhance safety and security, to reduce prison idleness, to produce quality, saleable goods and services, and to be a financially self-supporting State Agency.

Maryland Correctional Enterprises’ mission is to “provide structured employment and training activities for offenders in order to improve employability upon release, to enhance safety and security, to reduce prison idleness, to produce quality, saleable goods and services, and to be a financially self-supporting State Agency.” 

Maryland Correctional Enterprises (MCE) focuses on preparing incarcerated individuals for re-entry, which refers to the process of planning to be released from jail or prison and returning to local communities. Reentry has become quite a buzz word utilized by many agencies. Despite enormous monetary and personnel investments into this field, there is still confusion about what might be needed, required, or possible. Maryland has recruited many players for teams whose sole goal is to pave the way for parolees to have a life outside the fence.