If you know any residents currently at CTF or CDF who are there, or have been there, and have not had access to outside recreation at least in the past year, please encourage them to reach out to the CIC. All identifying information received is kept confidential.
The CIC can be reached at:
(202) 478-9211
441 4th Street NW - Suite 270N, Washington, DC 20001
The District of Columbia Corrections Information Council (CIC) today released its Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Report. The report includes an overview of the facilities inspected, concerns received for both DOC and BOP facilities, and events for the previous fiscal year.
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As part of its mandate to inspect Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities housing incarcerated DC residents, the DC Corrections Information Council (CIC) will conduct an onsite inspection of FCI McDowell, a medium-security men’s prison in Welch, West Virginia, on December 12-13, 2018. FCI McDowell currently houses 122 men who were convicted of DC Criminal Code offenses. The CIC urges you to contact the CIC if you have any information you would like to share regarding this facility.
Join the CIC in wishing our DC incarcerated residents happy holidays! The CIC office will be open from 10AM-3PM for those who would like to volunteer and send cheerful messages via postcard.
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On Sunday night the CIC received reports from men detained in the Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF) that they did not have access to running water to shower or flush toilets. The CIC reached out to DC Department of Corrections (DOC) who informed the CIC that CTF is experiencing low water pressure. While they are working on repairs, they are also moving detained persons from more-affected areas to less-affected areas of the facility. They said that there is access to water for showers, toilet flushing, and drinking.
Volunteers of America Chesapeake Residential Re-Entry Center is located in Baltimore, MD. On September 20, 2017, the CIC conducted an onsite inspection of VofA Chesapeake and it has collected other information between the onsite inspection and submission of a draft report to BOP. The BOP Response is published in toto along with the CIC report, here. The BOP response directly addresses CIC recommendations and contains updated facility information.
In response to the stabbing deaths of two DC men at USP Hazelton in September and April of this year, CIC representatives visited USP Hazelton on October 3, 2018, and interviewed 58 DC men.
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