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D.C sniper Lee Boyd Malvo's attorneys told the Maryland Court of Appeals this week that their client's life sentences without the possibility of parole should be reconsidered since he was a juvenile when he committed his crimes.

If a politician holding public office can end up in a jail cell, why can't an inmate take the opposite journey -- from locked away behind bars to out in front, leading a community? It's an audacious question that five inmates at the D.C. Jail in the District's Ward 7 are asking by running for elected office while still incarcerated.