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Prisoners convicted in DC Superior Court who were age 24 or younger when they committed their crime, are given a second chance at life on the outside.

Council Member Pinto stirs controversy with legislation on violent crime in DC. Pathways Program calls for expansion and replication.

Incarcerated people applying for early release would much rather do so from the D.C. Jail, but they've been blocked from doing so for years.

One defendant killed an innocent seven-year-old child.  Another shot a 24-year old mother in the back. Others kidnapped a woman, held her in the back of stolen van, and repeatedly gang-raped her.   These and about 583 other violent offenders—including murderers, rapists, and child molesters—could soon be let out of prison if Charles Allen, a D.C. Council member, has his way. 

A proposed rewrite of the District of Columbia's criminal code would allow D.C. inmates to ask for early release 20 years into their sentence and would decriminalize openly urinating and defecating in public.

A proposed rewrite of the District of Columbia's criminal code would allow D.C. inmates to ask for early release 20 years into their sentence and would decriminalize openly urinating and defecating in public.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Society often treats formerly incarcerated people as broken. At the Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, they find healing together.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.