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D.C. Witness Staff
- April 28, 2020
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A DC Superior Court judge released April 28 an inmate from a halfway house because the halfway house will be closing at the end of the month.
Donald Cook is charged with assault with the intent to kill for stabbing a man on Feb. 29.
Judge Juliet McKenna released Cook from Hope Village, because it is closing for good at the end of April.
Cook is now released under the high intensity supervision program (HISP).
Hope Village is the only men’s federal halfway house in close proximity to DC. Eighty-five percent of the inmates in Hope Village have been released to home confinement.
According to WUSA9, 31 men who were housed at Hope Village were moved to Baltimore.