D.C. jail

Members of the press were allowed to tour parts of the D.C. jail Tuesday after a recent surprise inspection found what the U.S. Marshals Service called “systemic failures” in unlivable conditions. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

A D.C. official says dozens of federal inmates have been sent to a prison complex in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in the past 48 hours after a surprise inspection found health and safety issues. One inmate tells News4’s Scott MacFarlane the transfers also raise concerns.

Advocates want answers after a recent surprise inspection found evidence of unsanitary living conditions at the D.C. jail.

Hundreds of D.C. jail inmates are being transferred to a federal prison nearly 200 miles away after a surprise inspection revealed unsanitary living conditions, News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) will be removing 400 inmates from a D.C. jail facility after an unannounced inspection conducted in October, the USMS said Tuesday.

As part of D.C.’s effort to broaden voter participation among incarcerated people, a unique election to fill an advisory neighborhood commission, or ANC, seat in Ward 7 will take place Tuesday.

As part of D.C.’s effort to broaden voter participation among the incarcerated, a unique election will take place Tuesday. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

A transgender woman is suing D.C. Jail for keeping her in the men’s detention unit despite her identifying as female.

The News4 I-Team goes behind bars to see what the District is doing to try to prepare longtime inmates for freedom. Scott MacFarlane reports the D.C. jail has an enormous task: Help the inmates, protect the community and keep peace inside its walls.

Young Men Emerging offers group counseling, one-on-one mentoring, job training and educational programs — all to help prepare the participants for their potential release from custody.

Financier and accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide is one of nearly a dozen suicides that happen per year in America’s federal prisons, according to records collected by the News4 I-Team.

Kim Kardashian West returned to D.C. as part of her criminal justice reform advocacy — this time, not to the White House but to a local jail.

The auditor of Washington, D.C, says the city needs a new jail, as conditions inside its 1976 facility that houses male inmates have become hazardous.

More than 40 inmates in jails and prisons in the Washington, D.C. area have died by suicide in custody since 2014, according to an investigation by the News4 I-Team.

A man accused of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend in D.C. somehow slipped through the cracks and was released from jail in Prince George’s County. News4’s Nicole Jacobs reports.

Several employees of the D.C. jail were sickened Thursday after an envelope containing a synthetic drug was discovered, officials say.

A man accused of calling in a bomb threat to Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in February will appear in court next week.

A woman with a record of trying to illegally enter the White House grounds has pleaded guilty to an incident on the Fourth of July.

For the second straight year, the U.S. Secret Service arrested a South Carolina woman trying to break onto White House grounds on the Fourth of July, police said.