Beverly Young has announced that she is leaving District government. This is big news for reporters on the crime beat. For years, Young served as the spokesperson for the Department of Corrections which meant the D.C. Jail. This was not exactly a happy job filled with good news. During her tenure, inmates escaped, there were [...]

Yesterday, Washington City Paper's Mike DeBonis tracked the latest turn in the war between Councilmember Phil Mendelson and AG Peter Nickles over the D.C. Jail's 10 p.m. inmate release deadline. Nickles doesn't like the law and wants it repealed. Mendo is still probably "appalled" at the request.
Nickles argues that the law is too costly. Advocates [...]

Tommy Blog: D.C. Councilmember Tommy Wells announced on his blog that he will be hosting a forum tomorrow night on AG Peter Nickles' recent push to allow late-night releases at the D.C. Jail. We wrote about the issue as well.
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Last week, as part of our average day coverage, Mike DeBonis reported that Councilmember Phil Mendelson was "appalled" at AG Peter Nickles' interest in rescinding a law that requires the D.C. Jail to release inmates before 10 p.m.
Mendo has every reason to be appalled. As chair of the Judiciary Committee, he knows all too well [...]

Today, the D.C. Department of Corrections issued a "program statement" establishing new procedures in how it classifies and houses transgendered inmates at the D.C. Jail. This is a huge step, and a surprisingly progressive step for the D.C. Jail. In a letter obtained by Washington City Paper, AG Peter Nickles wrote to to the D.C. [...]

In a "Special 40th Anniversary Issue" of its newsletter, the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs noted that the District recently made some big news. The city offered the largest settlement in its history for a wrongful-death case involving a prisoner. The prisoner had been fatally stabbed at the D.C. Jail six [...]

* In case you missed her: Washington Post's Howard Kurtz on Palin's Katie Couric interview. "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in her third interview since joining the Republican presidential ticket, licked her finger and stuck it in the air, saying that Sen. Barack Obama might wait and "see what way the political wind's blowing" on the [...]