Patuxent Institution Women Inmates to Donate 150 Quilts

(TOWSON, MD) — A dozen women inmates at Patuxent Institution in Jessup will once again donate their handmade quilts to St. Ann’s Center for Children, Youth, and Families in Hyattsville on Wednesday, May 20 at 1 p.m. This year, additional donations will be made to St. Vincent’s Villa.

The Patuxent Quilt Show event takes place at Patuxent Institution, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services’s special treatment prison at 7555 Waterloo Rd. (MD Route 175) in Jessup.

For years, Patuxent’s women inmates, under the tutelage of much appreciated volunteer quilters, have made more than 100 quilts a year and donated them to charity.  This year, a dozen women have hand-made 150 beautiful quilts, along with some baby items, which will be presented to the charity after a special ceremony that often is very emotional, as the women speak about what it means to them to be able to pay society back through this, one of DPSCS’s longest-running restorative justice programs.

St. Ann’s provides support services and transitional housing for teenage and young single mothers and their children. Its director will be on hand to accept the quilts. St. Vincent’s Villa is a Catholic Charities residential treatment center.

Members of the media will be able to interview an inmate quilter and the volunteers, as well as prison staff.

Media must R.S.V.P. by May 19.

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DPSCS Communications Office Contacts:

Mark Vernarelli | 410-339-5065  | mvernarelli@dpscs.state.md.us

Gerard Shields  | 410-339-5834 | gshields@dpscs.state.md.us

Communications Office | 410-339-5081