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Education & Rehabilitation

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

Gangs in Prison

• Heroin brought in by son led to ODs of 5 Philly-area women
  
  During Christmas Day, five women at George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware County suffered from heroin overdoses. One of the women died....[more]
  Metro US News, Thursday, January 2, 2020
  
  
• Prison chief admits not eyeing care
  
  Taylor estimates inmate deaths at a fraction of actual totals...[more]
  The News Journal, Wednesday, January 17, 2007
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

• Justice Reinvestment in Action: The Delaware Model
  
  This brief describes the efforts the state of Delaware has made using justice reinvestment to reduce its incarcerated population while ensuring public safety. “Justice reinvestment is a data-driven approach to corrections policy that seeks to cut spending and reinvest savings in practices that have been empirically shown to improve safety and hold offenders accountable … As other jurisdictions consider how best to invest limited public safety dollars, Dela¬ware’s experience offers a helpful example of what can be accomplished through a close consideration of data and social science. Because it is a unified system—one of only a handful in whic...[more]
  National Institute of Corrections, Tuesday, July 30, 2013
  
  

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Prison chief admits not eyeing care
  
  Taylor estimates inmate deaths at a fraction of actual totals...[more]
  The News Journal, Wednesday, January 17, 2007
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

• Inmates charged in Delaware prison riot claim abuse in lawsuit
  
  SMYRNA, Del. -- Nine inmates charged in a Delaware correctional officer's murder during a riot are suing corrections officials, alleging that they were abused....[more]
  6abc Action News, Tuesday, February 5, 2019
  
  
• DuPont heir’s rape case: Too rich for prison?
  
  IT’S NOT exactly news that wealthy defendants can buy more lenient justice — exhibit A: Jared Remy — but a shocking case in Delaware underscores how badly askew the nation’s justice system has become. An heir to the DuPont fortune, Robert H. Richards IV, was sentenced to probation, with no prison time, after he was convicted in 2009 of raping his 3-year-old daughter, a charge that could have landed him in prison for up to 15 years....[more]
  Boston Globe, Monday, April 7, 2014
  
  

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

Suicides in Prison

• Del. Prison Officials Appeal Third Circuit Ruling in Suicide Case
  
  The state filed a motion indicating it intends to ask the high court to reverse a September precedential decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit waiving qualified immunity against government officials for actions taken by their subordinates if the officials' own actions demonstrate an indifference to known deficiencies in policy or procedure. As a result of the Third Circuit's ruling, the widow and children of Christopher Barkes, an inmate who hanged himself in 2004, can sue former Department of Correction Commissioner Stanley Taylor and Raphael Williams, the warden at Howard R. Young Correctional Institution at the time o...[more]
  Delaware Law Weekly, Thursday, November 6, 2014
  
  

Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

• Vaughn Correctional Center in Delaware Gets New Warden
  
  The Department of Correction announced Thursday that David Pierce will take over at Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna on Sunday....[more]
  Associated Press, Friday, August 23, 2013