Returning citizen Tomar McWilliams recently re-entered D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC), not as a resident, but one of several young men gearing up to celebrate a milestone which, for him, was more than a decade in the making.
Earlier this year, McWilliams completed high school at DOC via Maya Angelou Academy @ D.C. Jail— an opportunity he said was too beneficial to ignore. So much so that McWilliams, then at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, opted for more time behind bars, the remainder of which he would serve at D.C. Jail.
“This was my last chance to get my high school diploma and obtain what I really needed to obtain,” McWilliams told The Informer. “I felt as though I had to make a sacrifice for my freedom. At the end of the day, I was already incarcerated, so there’s nothing more that could have hurt me, and I know what I needed for when I get out in the community, and I had to do that.”…