people in DC are under correctional control at any given time. 100 + Council for Court Excellence people have a publicly-available arrest or a conviction record. 0 + The Urban Institute Over 20,000 people from DC are incarcerated in prison or jail, are supervised on probation, parole, or supervised release, or under some...
In DC, 97 percent of cases are resolved with plea deals, without a trial where the defendant can contest the charges. Three quarters of the cases the DC courts spend their time processing are traffic and misdemeanor crimes, not the crimes most identified with a lack...
DC Justice Library DC Justice Lab pulled together research, information, and stories about the public safety issues in the District of Columbia, for you to use as a reference library and share with others. How did we get here, and where are we going? Learn more about how...