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After Sex Scandal, Delaware DOC Closes Ineffective Boot Camp
Loaded on Aug. 10, 2016
by Joe Watson
It took a prison guard’s compulsive sexual behavior to draw the critical eye of Delaware corrections officials to a boot camp program intended for troubled youth, and subsequently shut it down.
The Sussex Boot Camp, which opened in 1997 at the Sussex Correctional Institution (SCI) in Georgetown, Delaware, …
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