Lawmakers seek early release for some prisoners, investigation into COVID-19 protocols Xerxes Wilson, Delaware News Journal
Headlines January 5, 2021
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A group of Delaware lawmakers want to empower a special committee to call witnesses and subpoena documents relevant to how the state s Department of Correction has handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
Legislators will introduce a resolution aimed at creating the special committee to make findings and recommendations regarding the quality of health care provided to inmates in Delaware prisons, said state Rep. Sean Lynn, D-Dover, the primary sponsor.
The resolution along with a separate bill aimed at allowing some prisoners early release and credit off their sentences due to the pandemic represents the first legislative involvement of the Delaware General Assembly in COVID-19 outbreaks in local prisons, which have seen more than 1,750 prisoners infected and 12 die.