The Delaware Correctional Center (DCC) is a state prison for men in Delaware, USA. A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of Delaware ( is a state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It is the state's largest adult, male correctional facility.
Located near Smyrna, in the south of New Castle County, DCC houses some 2,500 minimum, medium, and maximum security inmates. Smyrna is a town in Kent and New Castle counties in the US state of Delaware. New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U It is also the primary facility for housing the Kent County pre-trial (detainee) population.
DCC also houses inmates sentenced to the death penalty. Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the Killing of a person by judicial process as Punishment. Executions are carried out by lethal injection at the Delaware Correctional Center, in a new lethal injection chamber built in 2000. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
History
DCC opened in 1971 with a capacity of 441, which has since been increased to over 2,600. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar.
In 1996, construction began on a $110 million, 888-bed addition including 600 new maximum security cells in six new units. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) The new addition houses the Security Housing Unit (SHU) and the Medium-High Housing Unit (MHU).
Prisoners in the SHU, which includes the prison's death row, occupy single-bunked cells in which they are locked for 23 hours a day. Inmates, other than those sentenced to the death penalty, may earn their way out of the SHU through good behaviour.
DCC has a major staffing problem. In order for the prison to operate normally many posts in the prison must be filled with staff on overtime. In many cases staff members are frozen, meaning they are forced to stay for an extra shift due to shortage of staff.
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