So to boil down – the District of Columbia can make the prison it runs in Maryland (which is NOT in the District of Columbia – DC) LARGER w/out Maryland’s approval. Sweet deal. Not!

Anne Arundel’s attempt to stop the expansion of a juvenile detention center in Maryland City is being squashed by the attorney’s general office.County Executive John R. Leopold said last week that he has asked Attorney General Doug Gansler to enforce a state law he claims the District of Columbia violated when it began expanding the Oak Hill Youth Center, which houses the District’s juvenile criminals.

“The law prohibits any state or other jurisdictions to build a detention center without prior written approval from the Secretary of Juvenile Services … which they never received,” Leopold said.

But that law doesn’t include juvenile centers, said Raquel Guillory, Gansler’s spokeswoman. She provided The Examiner with a 1985 letter from then-attorney general Stephen Sachs that said the law didn’t clearly include juvenile centers.

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