Could D.C. statehood reach all the way into the prison system?

Written By Madelyn S

Washington Post, March 25, 2021: Could D.C. statehood reach all the way into the prison system?

“‘As we operate right now . . . the entire criminal system in D.C. is federal,’ Philip Fornaci, who served as director of the D.C. Prisoners’ Project at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, told me, in what was probably his millionth explanation of D.C.’s weird system.”

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