But his pursuit has been hampered by a paperwork error, and the D.C. Board of Elections says he won’t be allowed to take office. Caston and his advocates outside the jail say they aren’t giving up on finding a solution. After reading the news, he sometimes writes notes on a jail whiteboard so that other inmates can see what the D.C. Council is up to. This fall, an ANC commissioner in the Hill East neighborhood not far from the jail came to a realization: Ever since redistricting in 2013 created a new seat, ANC 7F07, whose only occupied residential buildings are the jail and a nearby women’s shelter, that seat has been empty. He got in touch with advocates who work with incarcerated Washingtonians, and those advocates started asking inmates if they wanted to run.

Source: Washington Post December 18, 2020 03:33 UTC