March 1976, Anne Arundel’s county executive rode back into office promising Annapolis residents that as the county’s leader, he would make crime-fighting his first priority. Part of his strategy included the opening of a new juvenile rehabilitation center, and it would be conveniently located in the Winterode Building of Crownsville Hospital. The county executive was a man named Robert Pascal. He was a Republican originally from New Jersey, and he had been an all-American football player, business owner, and gas executive. He gave this new juvenile school a cheeky nickname: Pascal’s Prison.
