Doing time far from home, D.C. prisoners face extra barriers to rehabilitation

“Stevens was incarcerated in a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility hundreds of miles from the only city he knew because of the 1997 National Revitalization Act, which required the nation’s capital — then in the throes of a prolonged budget crisis — to close its prison and transfer custody of adult prisoners to the federal … Continue reading Doing time far from home, D.C. prisoners face extra barriers to rehabilitation