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Maryland is selling the Spring Grove psychiatric hospital and its 175-acre Catonsville campus to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for $1 even though the state has struggled for years with a lack of psychiatric facilities and services, particularly for people facing criminal charges or held in state prisons.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's administration proposes transferring the Spring Grove Hospital Center and its desirable 175-acre campus to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for $1, a move that could shutter the centuries-old psychiatric facility.