The District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DCDC) is a correctional agency responsible for the adult jails and other adult correctional institutions for the District of Columbia, in the United States.[1] DCDC runs the D.C. Jail.
The DOC was first established as an agency in 1946, when the District Jail (built 1872) was combined with the Lorton Correctional Complex.[1] The latter began as a workhouse for male prisoners in 1910, but later expanded to include eight prisons on 3,000 acres (12 km2) of land in Lorton, Fairfax County, Virginia.[1]
The DOC operates the Central Detention Facility (D.C. Jail), at 1901 D Street Southeast. The jail opened in 1976.[4]
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.[5] This judicially imposed cap was lifted in 2002, after seventeen years.[5][6] In 2007, DOC administrators set the jail's population capacity at 2,164.[4]
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 10.2 acres (4.1 ha) of land adjacent to the D.C. Jail. It consists of five separate buildings that appear like one large building.[4] It is located adjacent to the D.C. Jail.[4] It houses male prisoners, female prisoners, and juveniles charged as adults.[7] (Juveniles males charged as adults formerly were housed at the D.C. Jail, but this practice was discontinued.[9]) The CTF is operated by a private contractor, the Corrections Corporation of America, under a twenty-year contract with the District, entered into in March 1997.[4]
Rayful Edmond[11] charged with various drug crimes, and charged with running a Continuing Criminal Enterprise involving at least 150 kilograms of cocaine and at least 1.5 kilograms of cocaine base "[12]
^ abDeborah M. Golden, "District of Columbia Corrections System" in Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities (Vol. 1: ed. Mary Bosworth; SAGE, 2005), pp. 248-50.
This template pertains only to agencies that handle sentenced felons (with sentences over 1-2 years). In many states, pre-trial detainees, persons convicted of misdemeanors, and felons sentenced under state law to less than one year are held in county jails instead of state prisons.