Washington, D.C.: After Years of Complaints, the D.C. Jail Has Been Deemed Too Wretched for Some Inmates

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After Years of Complaints, the D.C. Jail Has Been Deemed Too Wretched for Some Inmates

3 November 2021

The U.S. Marshals Service announced Tuesday that it was transferring roughly 400 inmates out of the D.C. Jail due to unacceptable living conditions that reportedly included water and food being withheld as punishment. In a press release, the Marshals Service said it found conditions at one of the D.C. Jail's two main facilities "do not meet the minimum standards of confinement as prescribed by the Federal Performance-Based Detention Standards." The people incarcerated there will be transferred to a federal prison in Pennsylvania. The move follows years—more than a century, really—of complaints and reports from civil liberties groups about the wretched ...

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Suddenly the Far Right Wants to Fix the DC Jail. It Just Took Locking Up Some White Insurrectionists.
“It’s never been humane, it’s never been acceptable, it’s never been right.”

12 November 2021

A group of protesters gathered outside the Washington, DC, Courthouse on Wednesday holding signs emblazoned with “Free Them All” and “Care Not Cages” to demand the release of detainees at the DC jail, many of whom have been awaiting trial for several months. “Our loved ones and our family members have been kept in that jail in feces and in urine. They’re being held in inhumane conditions,” Qiana Johnson, an organizer with the Black-led prison abolitionist grassroots group Harriet’s Wildest Dreams said to the small crowd. “Mayor after mayor, administration after administration—that jail has been the same.” She added: “The ...

Suddenly the far right wants to fix the DC jail. It just took locking up some white insurrectionists.

"It’s never been humane, it’s never been acceptable, it’s never been right."

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