CORE DC

D.C.’s Hope Village, the only federally-contracted halfway house for men in the city, will now keep its contract until Oct. 31, according to company spokesperson Phinis Jones. This news, which the Federal Bureau of Prisons would not…

District residents are heavily debating the merits of a new halfway house in the city instead of staying with the present facility, and many returning-citizens activists want change.

Despite a hot jobs market, Washington and the nation are confronting a quiet employment crisis: legions of formerly incarcerated individuals who have little or no hope of becoming productive members of society because of fears, prejudices…