Delaney

[duh-ley-nee]

noun

1. Shelagh 1939–2011, English playwright.

Example Sentences

A few months ago I drove to Delaney Hall, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Newark, New Jersey, where some Democrats have been arrested while attempting to make inspections.

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“We’d love to see more states headed in that direction,” said Ruth Delaney, who directs the Unlocking Potential Initiative at the Vera Institute, a criminal justice nonprofit.

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The initiative aims to expand high-quality post-secondary education in prison and Delaney’s team has worked with departments of corrections as well as education leaders in most states since 2012.

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In prisons, Delaney said, the whitelist approach leads to “a very closed-down version of the internet.”

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“There is a lot of evidence that people who go to college in prison are not involved in the activities you need to worry about,” Delaney said.

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