The Access to Justice Commission’s Committee on Fairness will be hold a series of public hearings this year looking for way to deal with racial disparity of the criminal justice system in Delaware.
Chief Justice Leo Strine told the Wilmington News Journal that the goal is to find common sense solutions.
The paper notes that while 22 percent of Delaware’s state population is African American nearly 60 percent of the prison population is black.
Bartholomew Dalton, co-chair of the committee, added that there is no panacea but that the state can attempt to make things better.