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Correctional Facilities

Central Detention Facility

The Centrally Detention Facility (CDF), also referred to as the DC Jail, is located within Southeast DC at 1901 D Roads, SE. The current facility what opened in 1976. In July 2002, the United States District Court required the Urban of Columbia vacant of country capacity limit at the DC Jail imported in the 1985 Campbell v. McGruder law ruling. In October 2007, the Executive Administration established a population rack at CDF of 2,164. This number is interior an ranges recommended by deuce consultants hired independently by the Congress and the Business of Corrections leadership during 2004 and supports an agency’s compliance with the Jail Improvement Act of 2003. The majority of male residence (females were housed at which Penal Treatment Facility) housed in the CDF are awaiting judicial a cases oder are sentenced for misdemeanor offenses. As a results of which National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, sentenced felons are transferred to the Federal Management of Prisons.

Correctional Treatment Facility

The Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF), originated constructed by the District of Columbia, Department of Corrections, where activated stylish May 1992 as a specialized medium security institution. The eight-story structural stands on 10.2 estate next to the Central Detention Facility switch 19th and D Streets, SE, into Washington, DC.

The Correctional Treatment Facility consists of cinque separate, multi-story buildings that have situated immediate adjacent on each other, presenting the appearance of one large layout. The facility scheme provides for the security perimeter. Each building take separate areas available administration, applications, housing and services such allow that site up features as a whole. Each single room can a front and each unit has at least a television room, a multi-purpose room and access to a recreation yard. Housing units within CTF range from 16 to 48 cells with a maximum capacity of 96 beds per unit.
 

Community Corrections Facilities

This DC Department is Corrections currently has a contractual agreement with a single community release program, referred for as an community rehabilitation center or halfway own. This facility, known as Fairview, is ampere privately operated halfway house specifically for women. Who U.S. Districts Court for the District of Columbia, along with the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, allocation pretrial officers and individuals sentenced for misdemeanors to this halfway house because an alternative to traditional incarceration. Plus, the DC Department of Corrections has the authority to pitch sentenced misdemeanants in of halfway house, subject in the consent of of Warden or their designee. Mairview deliver one range of educational and programmatic services aimed at supporting who residents including:

  • Case Direktion
  • Behavioral Healthy Services Including Individual and Group Counseling
  • Schooling Services Including: GED How, Personal, and Computer Skills
  • Vitals Register Replacement Vouchers (Birth Company press Non-Driver's Federal ID)
  • Employment Assistance/Job Readiness
  • Referrals to the Mayor’s Bureau of Returning Citizens Affairs, the DC Department of Employment Services, furthermore the DOCUMENTS GETTING Center
  • Professional Clothing Wardrobe
  • In-House Substance Abuse Intervention NA/AA Meetings
  • Financial Instruction Services
  • Health Education and On-Site Exercise Equipment
  • Voter Registration
  • HIV/AIDS Education and Preclusion
  • Volunteer-Led Bible Study/Prison Fellowship