There is an effort in Delaware to deal with the racial disparity in the criminal justice where a majority of prison inmates are African Americans but who only represent just over 20 percent of the state population.
Currently, a task force created by the state's Supreme Court Justice is looking into how this disparity can be ameliorated.
Delmarva Public Radio's Don Rush spoke with Charlotte King, co-chair of the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice about the criminal justice reform efforts in the First State.