07/12/2024
Join DC Greens at the Summer Peace Jam THIS SATURDAY at Marvin Gaye Park! We’re excited to participate in this event promoting peace and health in Ward 7. Don’t miss local artist performances, health workshops, and more!
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This page is created for those who have been or know someone currently incarcerated at the DC DOC. jail.
The goal is to educate and help those who are currently being held at the DC Jail. This page is created to give a voice to people inside the walls of D.C.’s jails. We invite anyone with a loved one at D.C. Jail to share updates about their experience here. And, we invite journalists and District leadership to follow along. There can be no accountability without transparency. Examples of Informatio
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The conditions at the D.C. Department of Corrections are not rehabilitative by any definition, rather the conditions in the DOC violate people’s rights while causing and perpetuating harm against its residents. Many of us believe that people deserve another chance in life. We believe people are NOT their crime. Survivors and their loved ones and community advocates have long criticized the D.C. DOC for the horrific conditions of confinement, including but not limited to use-of-force, inedible and bad-tasting food, unsanitary conditions, maltreatment of medical and mental health needs. The conditions that people endure at the DOC hinder their ability to successfully reenter into the community, and therefore, reduce overall public safety in the District of Columbia. Community Guidelines:
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07/12/2024
The Federal Prison Oversight Act, sponsored by Georgia lawmakers in both chambers of Congress, heads to the president's desk.
07/12/2024
Congress has passed legislation overhauling oversight and bringing greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons, following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny.
07/12/2024
The private prison behemoth GEO Group became the first corporation whose PAC maxed out to former President Donald Trump’s campaign in late February.
07/08/2024
How to reform national ma*****na laws, and fix D.C.’s troubled jail system.
07/07/2024
June 7, 2024 - On May 16th, 2024, the D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC) gave a presentation to the District Task Force on Jails & Justice (Task Force) on its plans for a new jail facility. The Task Force met to discuss these plans on June 6th, 2024, and is issuing this statement to express di...
07/07/2024
Right now, 122,000 disproportionately Black and Brown people are being subjected to the brutal sensory deprivation that is globally recognized as torture, known as solitary confinement.
This year, and at a time where the U.S.A celebrates its independence in becoming a free nation, we think it’s a critical time to envision the Future State free from solitary confinement. The Fourth of July can be both a celebration of what's possible and a day to acknowledge what's yet to be done. In celebrating our freedom, we must not forget oppression and torture still exists.
Unlock The Box is fighting for it's freedom dream to become a reality - donate to help make freedom from oppression a reality now: https://zurl.co/A0Xp
06/05/2024
6/5/24 UPDATE: VISITS AT CDF HAVE RESUMED
Technical issues with our video visitation & electronic visit scheduling system have been resolved. Video and face-to-face visits have resumed at CDF.
The rescheduled dates for face-to-face visits are June 10th and 11th.
Thank you.
06/01/2024
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/719297/three-people-died-in-the-dc-jail-in-two-weeks/
A fourth person died in the jail in February. Five people have died while in the Department of Corrections’ custody in 2024.
05/28/2024
We are still accepting donations for the upcoming summer semester!📚✏️ We are collecting books and school supplies for incarcerated students at the DC Jail and the Patuxent Institution in Maryland. Check out our Amazon Wishlist at: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3HV7Z57MKZTXL?ref_=wl_share.
05/28/2024
The Prison Scholars Program is launching a new course at the D.C. Jail: Intro to Spanish I. Students will be able to take the program’s first ever foreign language course for 3 credits.
04/04/2024
Do you have questions about applying for clemency in the District of Columbia? Then join us on April 9th at 1:30pm for an informational webinar on clemency applications. Learn directly from the DOJ Pardon Attorney’s Office about the application. Clemency can provide relief to those deserving of a second chance. Come learn the process and get your questions answered by experts.
When: Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at 1:30 PM
Where: clemency.dc.gov
https://clemency.dc.gov/
The District of Columbia Clemency Board (Clemency Board) was created to help people convicted of D.C. Code Offenses receive a pardon or commutation. Because the District of Columbia is not a state, the Clemency Board cannot grant clemency but it can recommend clemency to the President of the United...
03/06/2024
Under the current system, which was set up in 1998, the U.S. Parole Commission decides whether people locked up for D.C. code offenses can be released on parole. The commission also has jurisdiction over federal prisoners whose offenses occurred before Nov. 1, 1987 (Congress eliminated federal parole in 1984; and D.C. transitioned to a system known as “supervised release” in August of 2000), but as of 2020, 90 percent of USPC’s caseload was made up of people convicted of D.C. crimes. And unlike what’s left of the federal parole system, prisoners under D.C. parole cannot appeal the USPC’s parole decisions.
The U.S. Parole Commission rejected Rob Barton’s application after D.C. squandered the chance to bring parole decisions under local control.
12/20/2023
https://thedcline.org/2023/12/20/daniel-a-rosen-food-in-dcs-jails-should-heal-not-harm/
As families across the District come together to share the bounty of holiday meals, a starkly different scene unfolds behind the walls of DC’s jails. Controversy about how to address recent spikes in crime shouldn’t blind us to a long-simmering probl
10/24/2023
https://dcist.com/story/23/10/24/man-dies-dc-central-cell-block/
Antonio Dockery is the third person to die in the custody of the D.C. Department of Corrections this year.
08/29/2023
Inmates and their families are being targeted by scammers peddling freedom.
08/28/2023
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08/28/2023
A divided U.S. Sentencing Commission has voted to retroactively apply changes to sentencing guidelines that will allow potentially thousands of defendants who were sentenced as first-time offenders to petition courts for a reduction in their prison terms.
08/21/2023
The victim was identified Sunday as 34-year-old Darrow Johnson of Clinton.
08/12/2023
The lawsuit alleges that Christian or Muslim individuals are not required to provide external verification of their faith to receive religious accommodations.
08/09/2023
For nearly two decades, Washington, D.C., had been carefully revising its criminal code. It took a month to blow it all up.
07/24/2023
Amid a staffing crisis and overcrowding, advocates say youth have been confined to their cells for as many as 23 hours out of the day.
07/18/2023
07/18/2023
Despite his pending court claim of actual innocence, ANC Leonard Bishop says he is scheduled for transfer to a prison in Kentucky.
07/12/2023
https://www.popville.com/2023/07/jail-coming-to-501-ny-ave-nw/
501 New York Ave, NW rendering via Zoom "Dear PoPville, Did you know the little police house at 501 New York Ave in the middle of mount vernon triangle is being turned into the central cell block for dc? All detainees will be held there. And possibly released from there as well. I don’t think
07/12/2023
06/30/2023
Donald Trump's bloody rhetoric undermines his defense of the sentencing reforms he proudly embraced as president.
06/30/2023
Too much? Too little? You be the judge.
06/15/2023
The vote rejects a proposal from Mayor Muriel Bowser, which would have moved crime scene science duties under the D.C. police department.
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