Senate Bill 7 (SB 7) eliminates unnecessary barriers to successful re-entry by tailoring probation conditions to the individual. By streamlining Delaware’s probation conditions, SB 7 reduces the risk of people on probation being subjected to overly burdensome requirements or rearrested for technical violations.
This is an important step toward more effective and efficient reentry in Delaware. Meaningful reform must center individual need — particularly when it comes to substance use conditions that do little to support true rehabilitation or reduce Delaware’s mass incarceration problem. SB 7 will make conditions tailored to individual’s circumstances the norm in Delaware. This includes only imposing substance use conditions when actually needed and ensuring that people for whom substance use conditions won’t help are exempt from those conditions entirely.
