Posted on 06/17/2021 8:38:16 AM PDT by grundle
The District’s newest elected advisory neighborhood commissioner is believed to be the first incarcerated person to win office in the nation’s capital.
Joel Castón, 44, has been locked up for 26 years, since being convicted of killing an 18-year-old man in a shooting in a D.C. parking lot. While incarcerated, he has served as a Christian worship leader, a financial literacy instructor, and the founding mentor of the Young Men Emerging program. He also wrote a memoir and learned Arabic and Mandarin.
On Tuesday, Castón won an an ANC seat that had been vacant since its creation in 2013. He will represent ANC 7F07 in the city’s Hill East neighborhood, which includes the D.C. Jail where he is incarcerated, the Harriet Tubman Women’s Shelter and a recently opened luxury apartment complex.
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Not a bug, it’s a feature.
Redemption can be had; let’s wait a while to pass judgement.
Maybe he can reverse the elected position to prison model to a prison to elected official model. This may be a way to keep our politicians rom having to get their kids jobs with Ukrainian oil companies or Chinese investment firms. /s
Why not? A convicted coke user was elected as mayor. Both before then after prison.
How can a felon for murder hold public office OH WAIT it’s D.C..
All the others just haven’t been convicted.
Will be be let out so he can do his job? I mean he needs to know the issues his neighborhood is. Besides, I thought felons can’t vote.
If the man is truly converted, and votes as a social conservative, they will change the law to prevent felons from running in the future.
Well we already have so many felons in D.C. what could one more hurt.
So much for law and order now days.
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