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Subchapter I. Purposes, Definitions and Powers
§ 6501. Establishment. - There is established a Department of Correction. Said Department shall...
§ 6502. Purposes and construction; custody of inmates. - (a) A Department of Correction is established to provide for...
§ 6503. Definitions. - As used in this chapter: (1) “Commissioner” or “Commissioner of...
§ 6504. General powers and duties of the Department [Effective until Apr. 3, 2023]. - The Department, subject only to powers vested in the judicial...
§ 6504. General powers and duties of the Department [Effective Apr. 3, 2023]. - The Department, subject only to powers vested in the judicial...
§ 6506. Employment of personnel. - (a) The Department shall be the hiring agency for all...
Subchapter II. Commissioner of Correction
§ 6516. Commissioner in charge. - The Commissioner shall assume full and active charge of the...
§ 6517. Duties and responsibilities of the Commissioner. - The Commissioner shall carry out and provide for: (1) Promulgating...
§ 6518. Adult Correction Healthcare Review Committee. - (a) The Adult Correction Healthcare Review Committee (Committee) is hereby...
Subchapter III. Bureaus and Divisions of the Department
§ 6520. Establishment of bureaus. - There shall be within the Department the following bureaus: (1)...
Subchapter V. Diagnostic Services and Special Groups
§ 6523. Rehabilitation services. - (a) The Department shall make social, medical, psychological and other...
§ 6524. Special problem groups. - The Department may establish facilities for the treatment of alcoholics,...
§ 6525. Treatment of inmates with mental illnesses and serious mental disorders; transfer. - (a) The Department shall establish resources and programs for the...
§ 6526. Special facilities for witnesses and those awaiting trial. - Special facilities shall be provided for witnesses detained for inability...
§ 6527. Creation and responsibility of classification boards. - (a) The Department shall classify persons in the several institutions...
Subchapter VI. Classification and Employment
§ 6529. Institutional Classification Board; discretion of Department in adopting classification systems. - (a) The Institutional Classification Board shall classify persons in the...
§ 6529A. Institutional Release Classification Board. - (a) The Institutional Release Classification Board shall classify any and...
§ 6530. Classification committee; information. - Immediately after a person who has been sentenced to 90...
§ 6531. Treatment and rehabilitation programs. - (a) Persons committed to the institutional care of the Department...
§ 6531A. Education programs. - (a) The Department of Education and the Department of Correction...
§ 6532. Work by inmates. - (a) The Department may establish compulsory programs of employment, work...
§ 6533. Outside employment; work release. - (a) The Department shall adopt rules and regulations governing the...
§ 6534. Payment of compensation. - (a) The balance remaining in an inmate's account established and...
§ 6534A. Claims for costs of support; lien. - Upon the sentencing of any convicted criminal to incarceration in...
§ 6534B. Delaware Correctional Industries Special Fund. - (a) There is hereby established a Delaware Correctional Industries Special...
Subchapter VII. Discipline, Medical Care and Discharge
§ 6535. Discipline. - The Department shall promulgate rules and regulations for the maintenance...
§ 6536. Medical care. - (a) The Department shall promulgate reasonable standards, and shall establish...
§ 6536A. Medical care. - (a) The Department shall make reasonable accommodations for the provision...
§ 6537. Inmate contacts outside institution. - (a) The Department shall authorize, under reasonable conditions, visits to,...
§ 6538. Furloughs. - (a) The Department shall promulgate strict rules and regulations subject...
§ 6539. Supervised custody program. - (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this title to the contrary,...
§ 6540. Discharge allowance. - (a) Persons discharged upon completion of their term or released...
§ 6541. Publication of names of inmates on supervised custody, work release or furloughs. - (a) Upon placing an inmate on supervised custody, work release...
Subchapter VIII. General Provisions
§ 6550. Seal; authentication. - The Department shall adopt a seal. Copies of all records...
§ 6551. Cooperation with other departments and agencies. - The Department shall cooperate with the courts and with public...
§ 6552. Discharge of employees. - All discharges shall be for cause and in accordance with...
§ 6556. Facilities, equipment and supplies. - The Department shall acquire, by lease, purchase or otherwise, all...
§ 6557. Offices and quarters. - The Department shall secure and furnish offices and quarters sufficient...
§ 6558. Lands and buildings. - The Department may acquire, by lease, purchase or otherwise, and...
§ 6559. Contracts; limitations for interest. - No officer or employee of the Department may be directly...
§ 6560. Annual reports. - The Commissioner shall make a report every year on or...
§ 6561. Police powers of correction officers, employees and internal affairs investigators. - (a) All correctional officers and employees of the Department shall...
§ 6562A. Furnishing contraband; penalty. - Whoever furnishes to any person committed to the jurisdiction of...
§ 6562B. Confiscated Contraband Interdiction Fund. - The General Assembly hereby declares that in order to provide...
§ 6563. Incarceration upon arrest by private detective. - All persons arrested by private detectives or private detective agencies...
§ 6564. Violation of § 6563 of this title. - Whoever, being a private detective, violates § 6563 of this...
§ 6565. Mandatory training of correctional officers; exceptions; appropriations. - (a) All correctional officers of the Department shall be required...
Subchapter IX. Interstate Corrections Compact
§ 6570. Title. - This subchapter may be cited as the “Interstate Corrections Compact.
§ 6571. Interstate Corrections Compact. - The Interstate Corrections Compact is enacted into law and entered...
§ 6572. Powers. - The Commissioner of the Department of Correction is hereby authorized...
§ 6573. Execution. - The Governor shall execute the Interstate Corrections Compact on behalf...
Subchapter IX-A. International Transfer of Prisoners
§ 6575. Authorization. - Notwithstanding any law of this State to the contrary, if...
Subchapter X. Sentencing Accountability Commission
§ 6580. Established; composition; purpose. - (a) The Delaware Sentencing Accountability Commission (hereinafter referred to as...
§ 6581. Sentencing guidelines. - (a) A computer-driven model of proposed sentencing criteria shall be...
§ 6581A. Additional duties of the Commission. - The Delaware Sentencing Accountability Commission (SENTAC) is hereby directed, pursuant...
§ 6582. Treatment Access Committee established. - (a) There is established a permanent committee of the Sentencing...
Subchapter XI. Institutional Planning
§ 6590. Comprehensive plan. - The Department shall develop a comprehensive plan for determining the...
§ 6591. Procedure. - (a) The Department shall determine the need for a correctional...
§ 6592. Action for noncompliance with site selection process. - (a) Any person who resides in the city, town or...