Library Services

Lori Kebetz
Library Manager

Montgomery County Correctional Facility
Address: 22880 Whelan Lane, Boyds, Maryland 20841 | Telephone: (240) 773-9914 | Directions | Bus Schedule | Inmate Visiting
Services Available Only to Incarcerated Individuals

The Montgomery County Correctional Facility (MCCF) Library operates as a branch of the Montgomery County Department of Public Libraries (MCPL) and is open 40 hours weekly. The MCCF Library offers free and equal access to services and resources to help incarcerated individuals find recreational, educational, and legal materials they might need to improve and enrich their lives as well as to facilitate successful community re-entry. The collection is compromised of approximately 10,000 fiction and nonfiction book titles that include materials in Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese. As an MCPL branch, the MCCF Library is able to borrow books requested by incarcerated individuals from other library branches through an interlibrary loan process. Incarcerated individuals visit the Library on a fixed and rotating schedule, during which they may check out up to three books and do legal research.

As mandated by Maryland and Federal law, the MCCF Library provides select legal resources in print for incarcerated individuals researching their active cases or matters of incarceration. A librarian conducts online searches of specific statutes and case law per incarcerated individual request. Incarcerated Individuals are allowed 50 free photocopies of legal-related material per week. Photocopy requests in excess of 50 pages per week cost ten cents per page.

Contact the Branch Manager with questions about book donations.