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Located near Smyrna , in the south of New Castle County , DCC houses some 2,500 minimum, medium, and maximum security inmates. It is also the primary facility for housing the Kent County pre-trial (detainee) population. DCC also houses inmates sentenced to the Death Penalty . Executions are carried out by Lethal Injection at the Delaware Correctional Center, in a new lethal injection chamber built in 2000 . HISTORY DCC opened in 1971 with a capacity of 441, which has since been increased to over 2,600. In 1996 , construction began on a $110 million, 888-bed addition including 600 new maximum security cells in six new units. The new addition houses the Security Housing Unit (SHU) and the Medium-High Housing Unit (MHU). Prisoners in the 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. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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