For decades now, the District of Columbia has been unable to make its own decisions around parole — that is, who gets released from prison on parole, and who gets put back in for violating it. Instead ...

Around this time a year ago, District leaders and activists harbored a faint but fading hope that the city would someday take back control of its parole system from the federal government. These days, ...

With unified Democratic control in Congress and the White House, Mayor Muriel Bowser has spent much of the past two years arguing forcefully for D.C. statehood. Yet at the same time, her ...