D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s proposed budget allocates more than $250 million over six years to build an annex geared toward rehabilitation.
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s capital budget proposal, which she unveiled this month, allocates more than $250 million over six years to design and build an annex to the Correctional Treatment Facility, which is a slightly newer part of the D.C. jail where women and some men in minimum security are detained. Bowser said the annex will pave the way to permanently shutter the adjacent Central Detention Facility, which was built in 1976.
The capital budget proposal appears, in large part, to follow recommendations made by the District Task Force on Jails and Justice, an independent advisory board convened in 2019 to outline a correctional plan for the city. The task force’s D.C. Council member Charles Allen , who chairs the council’s judiciary committee and serves on the Jails and Justice task force, praised Bowser for the “important symbolic and real investment.” He recognized that the planning process would take time and said he would “love to see if there are ways to move” up the timeline of construction.
The District is not alone in rethinking its system. The nation is now a half-century removed from the “tough on crime” era that inspired a boom in prison and jail construction, and many of the policies and practices from that time have since been dismissed as racist and counterproductive. Over the past few decades, elected officials across the country have passed laws reversing mandatory minimum sentences and launching rehabilitation programs to address the socioeconomic root causes of crime.
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