Because 90% of all prisoners in the United States are in state facilities, the work that states are doing to reduce their prison populations is crucial. Attempting to end mass incarceration necessitates realizing this is a situation requiring not one national solution, but fifty state solutions. Below are current state solutions that could be effectively modeled by other states for meaningful reform.
“The states were ranked based on four primary data points; the number of reentry programs, number of current and ex-inmates, background check restrictions and re-incarceration percentages. The study claims that Delaware has a 3-year recidivism rate of 64.90 percent, 8 percent of the state’s population being either a current or former inmate and a total of five reentry programs. “
Delaware State News
August 24, 2019
Read More“If you had told me a year or so ago that these kinds of bills were going to pass the Senate unanimously, I'd have thought you were crazy. It was only three years ago that senators got in shouting matches over a bill to scale back "three strikes" sentencing laws. So why has the tide turned in favor of reform?“
Delaware Online
July 5, 2019
Read More“Part of an ambitious criminal justice package announced months earlier and supported by a host of Democratic officials, the measures are based on a belief that youth should be treated differently than adults, with several people Wednesday noting the brain is not finished developing until around age 25.“
June 19, 2019
Delaware State News
Read More“Wilmington was a safer place last year. The tide of the city's gun violence epidemic, climaxing in 2017 with 197 people shot and 32 killed, has rolled back. Last year, there were 119 fewer shooting victims in Wilmington, a 60 percent drop.“
Delaware Online
January 9, 2019
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