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Prisons in Delaware

Delaware held 4,867 people under its correctional authority, an imprisonment rate of 275 per 100,000 residents, at the end of 2023, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

That is rank 30 of 50.

2023

4,867
Prisoners
275
Imprisonment rate
Per 100,000 residents of all ages, as the Bureau computed it.
346
Rate among adults
Per 100,000 residents aged 18 or older.
4,544
Men
323
Women
2,317
Admissions
Sentenced prisoners admitted during the year.

2012 to 2023

12 years, from the 11 editions the Bureau publishes as a machine-readable bundle. Each edition carries its own year and the one before, so every year but the first and last is published twice. Where the two disagree, the later edition is shown, because the Bureau revises rather than restates.

Admissions and releases are blank before 2019. The Bureau published them in one table with two blocks until then, each with a column called “Total”, and this pipeline cannot yet tell one from the other. A blank is the honest answer.

Delaware's prison population is 30.5% below its 2013 peak; 4,867 in 2023

People under Delaware's jurisdiction at year end, 2012 to 2023. Jurisdiction rather than custody: the state holds jurisdiction over a prisoner it houses elsewhere, which is the count the Bureau of Justice Statistics publishes by state.

Source: The Bureau of Justice Statistics

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Delaware's prison population is 30.5% below its 2013 peak; 4,867 in 2023. People under Delaware's jurisdiction at year end, 2012 to 2023. Jurisdiction rather than custody: the state holds jurisdiction over a prisoner it houses elsewhere, which is the count the Bureau of Justice Statistics publishes by state.
YearPrisoners
20126,914
20137,004
20146,955
20156,654
20166,585
20176,443
20186,067
20195,692
20204,710
20214,810
20224,954
20234,867

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Prisoners under Delaware's jurisdiction, 2012 to 2023
YearPrisonersRate per 100,000
20126,914448
20137,004442
20146,955440
20156,654442
20166,585427
20176,443422
20186,067411
20195,692380
20204,710313
20214,810276
20224,954272
20234,867275

Race and Hispanic origin · 2023

The Bureau’s own categories, under its own labels. This is the composition of the prison population, not a rate: it is not divided by the population of each group, and it should not be read as one. Percentages are of the people whose race the state reported.

Prisoners under Delaware's jurisdiction by race and Hispanic origin, 2023
CategoryPrisonersShare
black2,78257.2%
white1,46230.0%
did not report3256.7%
hispanic2835.8%
asian80.2%
unknown70.1%
american indian alaska native00.0%
native hawaiian other pacific islander00.0%
other00.0%
two or more races00.0%

Sources

Compiled automatically from Bureau of Justice Statistics — Prisoners by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

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