This contains posts related to all parts of the District government including the DC Council, the Mayor’s office and related entities.
In June 2023, the Council for Court Excellence published a Report Card on the District Task Force on Jails & Justice recommendations (link) examining its implementation of the Report’s Phase …
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The Post article, titled D.C. stumbles leave fate of local control of parole with new Congress, chronicles the failure of District leaders to take advantage of a window of opportunity …
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In a press release issued by her office, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton announced that her District of Columbia Home Rule Expansion Act (H.R. 8861), “the biggest expansion of D.C. home …
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Violence interruption is a community-based approach to reducing communal and interpersonal violence that treats violence as a public health problem. This type of model was reportedly created by the organization …
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This is a piece from University Legal Services’ Jail and Prison Advocacy Project recent newsletter. It was authored by Cami Bianchi, one of their summer interns and is published here …
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The US District Court for the District of Columbia entered an Order holding the District is in contempt of the Court’s preliminary injunction issued on June 16, 2021 because DC …
Shelley Broderick, chair of the District Task Force on Jails & Justice (more), published an opinion piece in the Washington Post, titled Opinion: We have a plan to close the …
As reported in the DCIST: The DC Council has begun a process to evaluate a sweeping rewrite of the city’s criminal code, a deep-in-the-weeds and yet potentially consequential effort to …
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The April 2021 ReThink Justice monthly meeting featured a presentation on the recently publish final report of the DC Police Reform Commission. The report included a comprehensive set of police …
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I a letter send to Councilmember Vincent Gray, a diverse group of over 20 community leaders, faith leaders and citizens calling on him to abandon his attacks on The Horizon, …
