J6 supporters gather outside of the D.C. jail for nightly protest in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 15, 2023. FREEDOM CORNER — This patch of sidewalk in Southeast Washington, D.C., between the ...

SEE ALSO | DC inmate killed after stabbing inside city jail, investigation underway. D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson recently completed the report, an update to the last one completed in 2019.

Members of a group accompanying Mayor Muriel E. Bowser walk past an inmate's cell during a tour of the D.C. jail in September 2015. (J. Lawler Duggan for The Washington Post) For decades, detainee ...

Capitol Protests Federal judge finds DC jail warden in contempt, demands DOJ civil rights probe of Jan. 6 detainees 'I find that the civil rights of the defendant have been abused,' the judge said ...

WASHINGTON — D.C. needs a new jail. That's what reports from the Office of the D.C. Auditor have been saying for years. And the newest audit, released Wednesday, says this is no longer just a ...

DC jail has always been too expensive,” Patrice Sulton, founder and executive director of the DC Justice Lab, said. “We’ve been making noise about this for a long time.

D.C.'s single jail facility has an infection rate of more than 90 cases per 1,000 inmates. Comparing D.C. to states can be misleading – Virginia and Maryland, for example, have multiple ...

D.C. United has been involved before in philanthropic work supporting families of people serving prison sentences, according to Shanell Mosley, D.C. United’s senior director of community ...

A federal judge blasted the DC jail Thursday for failing to get evidence to a Capitol riot defendant who has been in jail since January. “I can’t allow someone to sit in prison for this long ...

A federal judge on Wednesday held top officials at the Washington, D.C., Department of Corrections in civil contempt, after ruling they violated the civil rights of a U.S. Capitol riot defendant ...

For several months, a few dozen men being held without bail in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol have loudly and repeatedly complained about conditions at the District of Columbia jail.