This has posts about halfway houses and issues related to all forms of supervised release.
The Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights the ACLU of the District of Columbia have filed suit on behalf of residents of the Hope Village Halfway House. The class action lawsuit names Hope Village, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the D.C. Department of Corrections and alleges these defendants dit not “take even the most basic …
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From Congresswoman Norton Press Release: Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter she sent today to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Michael Carvajal, again asking BOP to investigate conditions at Hope Village, the men’s halfway house in the District of Columbia, after learning a that two residents died there in …
Attorney General William P. Barr issued an order to the federal Bureau of Prisons “to expand the cohort of inmates who can be considered for home release upon my finding that emergency conditions are materially affecting the functioning of the Bureau of Prisons.”
The ReThink Justice Pathways to Reentry Committee send a sign-on letter to Mayor Bowser and Councilmember Charles Allen, Chair of the Council’s Judiciary Committee to bring to their attention an urgent situation regarding the District’s only halfway house for men. The letters states that the signees believe that this DC-based halfway house is in danger …
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One of the issues the coalition works on is the conditions provided for our returning citizens at the federal halfway houses they are sent to when they are pre-released to the District. The following article from the DCist, published in late August, 2019, provides an excellent background on this issue as well as the status …
