It took place inside the D.C. jail’s Correctional Treatment Facility in Southeast.
Fifteen young men, who completed their high school education through the Maya Angelou Academy, were being awarded Wednesday with their diplomas after qualifying for and then completing the program.
The graduates, with the cuffs of their orange jumpsuits peeking out from underneath their graduation gowns, sat on one side of the gym; their families, friends and, in some cases, attorneys who’d followed their progress, sat on the other…