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Media featuring the Washington Lawyers’ Committee staff and work.
Justice Department has yet to close probe into Tamir Rice’s police shooting death
- Cleveland.com
A Connecticut Avenue apartment complex shows effects of a legal loophole and cracks in city housing subsidy programs
- DC Line
Speak Out Against DC Parole System
Alabama’s Cruel and Unusual Prisons
- New York Times
A new D.C. jail is a shortsighted solution
- Washington Post
D.C. auditor says city needs a new jail to replace ‘aging and deteriorating’ facility
- Washington Post
‘Sleeping with the boss’ rumor is sex discrimination: 4th Circuit
- Reuters
D.C. Council overrides Bowser veto, votes to decriminalize Metro fare evasion
- Washington Post
Should fare evasion on Metro be decriminalized?
- WUSA9
Chief Newsham is wrong. Police oversight is essential.
- Washington Post
“Dr. King said, ‘the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice.’ But only when people pull it toward justice. The Washington Lawyers’ Committee is doing the pulling, and our city and the nation are better for it.”
Eric Holder, former Attorney General of the United States

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