The Prison System and The Jail System
Delaware has a unified system, which means there is an integrated state-level prison and jail system. There are six states with unified systems. They are: Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
As of December 31, 2022, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of State of Delaware correctional authorities was 4,954 located in 12 state facilities and held in the custody of private prisons. The Delaware Department of Corrections had a budget of $369,143,000.
The Community Corrections System
As of December 31, 2022, Delaware community corrections population was 10,810 under probation and 340 under parole.
Methodology
The National Institute of Corrections depends on publicly available information to provide the information on this page.
The statistics for budgets, employee positions, county numbers, and state prison facilities data come from state departments of corrections, other state reports and state agencies. If data is missing for a state, then we were unable to find that information.
The data on prison population come from the Prisoners in 2022 report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The report includes the count of prisoners in the unified systems of Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Violent and property crime rates are provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
The number of counties per state comes from the United States Census Bureau.
- County Population Totals and Components of Change: 2020-2023
- Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) FY22 EEO/AA Report and FY23 Action Plan
- Federal Bureau of Investigation Crime Data Explorer
- FY22 Governor's Recommended Operating Budget - Correction
- How much do states spend on prisoners?
- Prisoners in 2022 – Statistical Tables
- Probation and Parole in the United States, 2022