🔒 Metropolitan Transition Center

The Maryland Metropolitan Transition Center (MTC), formerly known as the historic "Maryland Penitentiary", is a Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services pre-trial maximum security prison located in Baltimore facing Greenmount Avenue between Forrest Street and East Madison Street. It was established in 1811 as the first prison in the state and the second of its kind in the country and the original buildings faced towards East Madison Street above the east bank of the Jones Falls stream and adjacent to the old stone walls of the Baltimore City Jail, earlier established in 1801, rebuilt in 1857–1859, and later in 1959–1965.