§ 8-501

(a) Outstanding charges against an incarcerated individual and detainers based on untried indictments, informations, warrants, or complaints produce uncertainties that:

(1) obstruct programs of incarcerated individual treatment and rehabilitation; and

(2) cause an incarcerated individual serving a term under a detainer to suffer serious disadvantages.

(b) The policy of the State and the purpose of this subtitle is to encourage the expeditious and orderly disposition of outstanding charges against an incarcerated individual and determination of the proper status of any detainers based on untried indictments, informations, warrants, or complaints.