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Volume 3 confronts the financial reality of Delaware's criminal legal system - what it costs, where money is wasted, and how systemic design choices quietly drain public resources while failing to improve safety or outcomes. This volume examines how incarceration, probation, parole, reentry failures, administrative inefficiencies, and duplicative oversight structures generate long-term fiscal harm. It traces how poor system design creates recurring costs - through technical violations, extended supervision, emergency interventions, repeated court involvement, and avoidable recidivism - while obscuring accountability across agencies. Rather than focusing on abstract budgets, Volume 3 connects policy decisions to real dollar amounts, demonstrating how human harm and fiscal waste are directly linked. It highlights how ineffective supervision models, delayed services, fragmented responsibility, and under-resourced alternatives produce costs that far exceed any public safety benefit. Written for legislators, oversight bodies, advocates, and informed citizens, this volume provides a framework for understanding where reform produces savings, where false economies persist, and how fiscal accountability can be aligned with constitutional compliance and human dignity rights. This is not a call for cuts. It is a call for intelligent investment, structural correction, and responsible governance. Volume 3 of a seven-volume series examining systemic failure, fiscal impact, and reform within Delaware's legal and correctional systems.

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