How One State Has Used the Standard Act

Abstract

This article describes Delaware's development from an anti quated penal system. At first, the state assumed responsibility for its county institutions; then, the public's massive and dramatic efforts to reorganize the adult correctional and probation and parole services and the services for youth culminated in the creation of a department of correction. The organizational struc ture of the first board is compared with that of the new Depart ment, and the part played by the Standard Act during the drafting of the new legislation is discussed and analyzed. Finally, the problem of budgets is considered.