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November 12, 2022
Maryland’s Bowie State University is now offering people serving time at Jessup Correctional Institution the opportunity to earn a degree in sociology and a certificate in entrepreneurship.
March 4, 2022
Tyrone Walker memorized one specific sentence in the bio of Tom Faust, the director of the D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC).
January 22, 2022
No one else in D.C. history has ever regained their freedom as an elected official, and Joel Castón is determined to set a good precedent.
November 27, 2021
After nearly 30 years of incarceration, Joel Castón is home. A mentor, advocate, advisory neighborhood commissioner, and former member of Georgetown’s Prison Scholars Program (PSP), Castón was released from the D.C. Jail on parole on Nov. 22.
April 25, 2021
Imagine if the system had treated me as a young man to be redirected, instead of turning me over to the maximum-security federal institutions that became my surrogate “parent.”