Top District officials are thrashing out whether to build a new D.C. Jail on prime Anacostia waterfront real estate in the soon-to-be-redeveloped Hill East community, The Examiner has learned.

Discussions of a new prison focus on the site of a former psychiatric treatment center, called Building 25, on the grounds of the Hill East tract known as Reservation 13. The expansive 67-acre reservation, the planned site of a massive mixed-use project just south of RFK Stadium, comprises a patchwork of buildings including the existing D.C. Jail and the former D.C. General Hospital.