The District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DCDC) is a correctional agency responsible for the adult jails and other adult correctional institutions for the

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History

The DOC was first established as an agency in 1946, when the District Jail (built 1872) was combined with the

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. The latter began as a workhouse for male prisoners in 1910, but later expanded to include eight prisons on of land in Lorton,

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. In 1999 the DCDC was paying the

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to house 69 prisoners at the

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in rural

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, about 20 miles south of Washington, served as the District of Columbia's prison. The

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required the DC Department of Corrections to transfer the sentenced felon population formerly housed at Lorton to the

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(BOP), and the Lorton facility shut down in 2001.Annys Shin
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'' (March 9, 2001). The Lorton complex was handed over to the

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(GSA), which manages property for the federal government, which in turn gave the property to Fairfax County.

Facilities

The DOC operates the Central Detention Facility (

), at 1901 D Street

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. The jail opened in 1976.Correctional Facilities: Central Detention Facility
District of Columbia Department of Corrections (accessed August 5, 2016). In 1985, a federal judge in the case of ''Campbell v. McGruder'', a lawsuit filed against the District of Columbia for unconstitutional jail conditions, set a population cap of 1,674 inmates for the D.C. Jail.Deborah M. Golden, "District of Columbia Corrections System" in ''Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities'' (Vol. 1: ed. Mary Bosworth;

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, 2005), pp. 248-50. This judicially imposed cap was lifted in 2002, after seventeen years. In 2007, DOC administrators set the jail's population capacity at 2,164. The D.C. Jail houses only adult males.Alex Zielinski
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'' (July 2, 2015). It holds inmates detained while awaiting trial; inmates convicted of

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s; and convicted felons awaiting transfer to the

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District of Columbia Department of Corrections (retrieved August 5, 2016). The Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF) at 1901 E Street SE, which the district opened in 1992, is an eight-story, medium-security facility located on of land adjacent to the D.C. Jail. It consists of five separate buildings that appear like one large building. It is located adjacent to the D.C. Jail. It houses male prisoners, female prisoners, and juveniles charged as adults. (Juveniles males charged as adults formerly were housed at the D.C. Jail, but this practice was discontinued.) The CTF is operated by a private contractor, the

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, under a twenty-year contract with the District, entered into in March 1997. The DOC contracts with three privately owned and operated

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s: Extended House, Inc., Fairview and Hope Village. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the

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sometimes use the halfway houses as an alternative to incarceration. Juveniles who are not charged as adults are not in DOC custody, instead going to facilities operated by the

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. For fiscal year 2015, DOC reported having 939 full-time employees.

Notable inmates

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, the "peeping rabbi," convicted on 52 counts of

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. * Ingmar Guandique, suspect in the murder of

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*Andre Clinkscale and William McCorkle for the May 2008 murders of Duane Hough, Johnny Jeter, and Anthony Mincey," "

References

External links

Official website

November 4, 2021 DC DOC facility inspection report
Office of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) {{DEFAULTSORT:District Of Columbia Department Of Corrections Law enforcement agencies of the District of Columbia State corrections departments of the United States

History

Facilities

Notable inmates

See also

References

External links