The Delaware Department of Correction is now participating in - and contributing to - the Delaware Open Data Portal.
The Delaware Open Data Portal is an online public database administered by the Open Data Council.
Monthly inmate and probationer population reports furnished by DOC will now be available in the Public Safety section of the Portal.
Users accessing the Inmate Population dataset on the Open Data Portal can search for the total number of offenders by year, month, county, type of institution, name of institution, sentence type, gender, and ethnicity. No personal inmate information will be included.
Public availability of prison and probationer data in the portal allows researchers, policy professionals, and concerned citizens to instantly access the information on your own, without having to submit a request to the DOC.
“The benefit of this information being readily available online to the public is that they can access it instantly and select their own parameters, without needing to submit a data request to the Department and await a response," said Joanna Champney, Chief of the DOC’s Planning & Research Unit, in a statement. "Whether the user is a nonprofit employee seeking demographic information for grant writing purposes, a community advocate looking for information about the number of prisoners with certain characteristics, or a student looking for facts to support their research, we hope the public will find this resource helpful.”
You can visit the Delaware Open Data Portal here.
