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| D.C. weighs limits on inmate release |
| By http://washingtonexaminer.com - Alan Blinder |
| Published: 04/23/2012 |
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The District is releasing fewer prisoners during overnight hours than it did in the past, a trend that could relieve long-held neighborhood concerns about freed convicts roaming the streets around the jail in Southeast Washington after dark. In a report issued by the District's chief financial officer, the Department of Corrections said that in the 2010 fiscal year, it released up to 15 inmates per month during a nine-hour window beginning at 10 p.m. But during the first five months of the 2012 fiscal year, that number fell sharply, with the jail releasing a total of five inmates during that period. The decline began not long after at-large D.C. Councilman Phil Mendelson introduced a measure that would impose strict requirements about how quickly and when the Department of Corrections must release inmates. Under the proposal, jailers would be required to free inmates within five hours of a court ordering them released or by noon of their scheduled release date. The measure would also fine the Department of Corrections $1,000 every time it released a prisoner between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Read More. |
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