Delaware profile
Change over time
Also see these Delaware graphs:
- total numbers rather than rates.
- Women’s prisons: Incarceration Rates | Total Population
- Men’s prisons: Incarceration Rates | Total Population
Racial disparities
See also our detailed graphs about Whites and Blacks in Delaware prisons and jails.
The big picture
Our other articles about Delaware
- Federal rules protect out-of-state families, but Delaware charges its families unconscionable sums to talk to loved ones in its state prisons,by Peter Wagner, February 25, 2014
- Delaware Passes Law to Count Incarcerated Persons at their Home Addresses for Redistricting, press release from Prison Gerrymandering Blog, July 7, 2010
- How does the Delaware incarceration rate measure up in the global context?
Other resources
- Research on Delaware in our Research Clearinghouse
Events
- May 15, 2018:
Our Policy Analyst Lucius Couloute will be at the LEDA Summit on Race and Inclusion in Holland, Michigan, presenting his research on the challenges and disadvantages people face when they are released from prison. Tickets are available on LEDA’s website.
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