The two candidates vying to serve as Delaware’s next governor—U.S. Rep. John Carney, D-Delaware and state Sen. Colin R.J. Bonini, R-Dover South—have largely taken a hands-off approach to criminal justice reform, even as a groundswell of political support for sentencing reforms, the abolition of the death penalty and marijuana legalization have taken hold in the First State in recent years.
But despite the lack of emphasis on the subject in two debates between Bonini and Carney, further reform proposals—and likely some pushback to those already in place— may await whoever is elected on Nov. 8.
