Nickles demands D.C. Council rewrite law on prisoner release

Tired of paying out tens of millions of dollars in civil rights litigation, D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles is demanding the D.C. Council rework a law that keeps the jail from releasing its prisoners in the middle of the night.

D.C. passed a law in 2003 forbidding the jail from releasing inmates after 10 p.m. and before 7 a.m. after neighbors in the gentrifying Hill East community voiced anxieties about having ex-prisoners roaming their streets in the middle of the night.