Children committed to D.C.’s juvenile justice agency should be transferred from detention to a rehabilitation program within 30 days, the agency director says. Yet today, young people are languishing for months at the detention center, where dangerous incidents have nearly quadrupled since 2021.

Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances. They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.

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