For the first time in more than 100 years, the District of Columbia is working to overhaul its criminal code. The massive undertaking would have a big impact on the District's criminal justice system.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday in favor of a disapproval resolution that would overturn D.C.'s criminal code revisions. By a vote of 81-14-1, the senators passed the H.J. Res. 26, the ...

The D.C. Council granted second and final approval to a controversial sweeping overhaul of the District's century-old criminal code on Tuesday. According to FOX 5 D.C., the council unanimously voted ...

D.C. has been called lots of things, but “District of Crime?” That’s the moniker Fox News recently used for D.C. in a recent segment on a sweeping overhaul of the city’s criminal code passed by the ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A bill to overhaul D.C.’s criminal code was passed unanimously by the D.C. Council Tuesday. However, on Wednesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser was not saying whether she would veto it, ...

As dozens of House Republicans gathered in the Capitol building’s Statuary Hall on Friday to celebrate Congress blocking D.C.’s revised criminal code, they made one thing clear: D.C. should buckle up.