Delaware Department of Correction

Delaware had recently seen a Department of Correction shakeup with the closure of Wilmington’s Plummer Community Corrections Center in March.Plummer housed men in a work release program that allowed them to stay close to family in northern New Castle County and find work in their community.Now, those who would have gone to Plummer are sent to a facility in Smyrna, a move that’s faced some backlash.Delaware Public Media’s Abigail Lee met with work release participants, advocates and the Department of Correction Commissioner to see what work release programs look like now that Plummer is gone.

The Plummer Community Corrections Center moved its final residents at the beginning of March. DOC staff are now working to shut down the facility.

Wilmington City Council passes a resolution requesting the Plummer Community Corrections Center stay open.

Living downstate away from family and in whiter areas will put Plummer residents in more precarious situations where recidivism is more likely, according to City Councilmember Shané Darby.

The Delaware Department of Correction is transitioning its K-9 program to lifesaving contraband detection.

Criteria to apply for compassionate release from prison would include serious medical illness or infirmity, as well as certain age and sentence length requirements for rehabilitated individuals.

The ACLU of Delaware is appealing two FOIA request denials from the Delaware Department of Correction.

The ACLU is representing six incarcerated individuals and claims the DOC violated the Eighth Amendment protections from cruel and unusual punishment.

Delaware’s Department of Correction is making a tablet available to each incarcerated individual — deploying more than 4,000 new digital tablets to meet a one-to-one tablet to inmate ratio.

DelDOT and its partners collected almost 92,000 bags of trash as part of the Keep DE Litter Free initiative.