A new pandemic relief bill might release hundreds of Delaware inmates. Is it already too late? Joy Ashford, Delaware News Journal
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In the year since COVID-19 first hit Delaware prisons, inmates have been disproportionately infected and say their pleas for help have mostly gone unanswered.
More than 2,000 prisoners across the state have tested positive for the virus and 13 have died, according to the Delaware Department of Corrections.
Experts disagree on the best way to calculate the total number of inmates in Department of Correction custody, which also includes defendants awaiting trial.