2025 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 5. SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Subchapter VI. Offenses Against Public Administration
§ 1252. Escape in the second degree; class G felony.

Universal Citation:
11 DE Code § 1252 (2025)
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§ 1252. Escape in the second degree; class G felony.

A person is guilty of escape in the second degree when the person escapes from a detention facility or from the custody of the Department of Health and Social Services or the Department of Correction.

Escape in the second degree is a class G felony.

11 Del. C. 1953, § 1252;  58 Del. Laws, c. 497, § 1;  59 Del. Laws, c. 547, § 8;  63 Del. Laws, c. 168, § 1;  67 Del. Laws, c. 130, § 8;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 
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