Years ago, when Robert Contee was the chief of D.C. police, community activist Ronald Moten sounded the alarm.

He felt young people in the city would commit a crime and get released without receiving the proper services and help that they needed. It was clear to him that they could be helped, but “what was in place is not what they needed, and we were throwing them back in the community,” Moten said.

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