The District of Columbia Department of Corrections ( DCDC ) is a penitentiary responsible for adult prisons and other adult prisons in the District of Columbia, the capital of the United States. DCDC runs DJ Prison.
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History
The DOC was first established as an agent in 1946, when the District Prison (built in 1872) was incorporated with the Lorton Correctional Complex. The latter started as a social house for male prisoners in 1910, but was later expanded to include eight prisons on 3,000 acres (12 km km) of land in Lorton, Fairfax County, Virginia.
In 1999, the DCDC paid the Virginia Corruption Department to hold 69 detainees at the Red onion State Prison.
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Operation
For about ninety years, the Lorton Correctional Complex in rural Fairfax County, Virginia, about 20 miles south of Washington, serves as a District of Columbia prison. The Government's National Capital and Government Self-Government Revitalization Act of 1997 required the DC Department of Control to relocate the previously convicted criminal population held in Lorton to the federal prison Bureau (BOP), and the Lorton facility was closed in 2001. The Lorton Complex was submitted to the Administration General Services (GSA), which manages the property for the federal government, which in turn assigns the property to Fairfax County.
Rank Structure
The DOC operates the Central Detention Facility (D.C. Jail), in 1901 D Street Southeast. The prison opened in 1976.
In 1985, a federal judge in the case of Campbell v. McGruder , a lawsuit filed against the District of Columbia for an unconstitutional prison condition, set a population limit of 1,674 detainees to D.C. Jail. This legally-dropped hat was lifted in 2002, after seventeen years. In 2007, DOC administrators set the capacity of the prison population at 2,164.
The D.C. Jail home only adult males. He detained inmates detained pending trial; prisoners convicted of minor offenses; and the prisoner awaits transfer to BOP.
The Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF) in 1901 E Street SE, which opened the district in 1992, is an eight-level secondary security facility located on a 10.2 hectare (4.1Ã, ha) plot next to D.C. Jail. It consists of five separate buildings that look like one big building. It lies adjacent to D.C. Jail. These men's detention centers, female prisoners, and adolescents are charged as adults. (Adolescent boys were charged as adults previously placed in DC Prison, but this practice was discontinued.) CTF is operated by a private contractor, Correction Corporation of America, under a twenty-year contract with the District, entered into March 1997.
DOC contracts with three privately owned and privately owned half houses: Extended House, Inc., Fairview, and Hope Village. The US District Court for the District of Columbia and the District Court of Columbia District sometimes uses a transitional house as an alternative to detention.
Teenagers who are not charged as adults are not in DOC custody. Boys and girls accused of being teenagers detained at the Youth Service Center D.C. (juvenile detention center run by the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services) on Jalan Bukit Olaitun in North East Washington).
For the fiscal year 2015, the DOC reported having 939 full-time employees.
Leading Prisoner
Central Detention Facility
- Rayful Edmond is accused of multiple drug offenses, and accused of running a Continuing Criminal Company involving at least 150 pounds of cocaine and at least 1.5 kilograms of cocaine "
- Barry Freundel, a "rabbi peeper", was convicted on 52 counts of voyeurism.
- Ingmar Guandique, a suspect in Chandra Levy's murder
- Raymond Joshua, the protagonist of the 1998 film Slam .
- Andre Clinkscale and William McCorkle for the May 2008 murder of Duane Hough, Johnny Jeter, and Anthony Mincey,
See also
- List of law enforcement agencies in the District of Columbia
References
External links
- Official website
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