An oversight office reported more assaults at the city’s youth jail in October than in any other recorded month.

The news comes after the city finally reached a settlement agreement to terminate court oversight.

According to a report from D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, 52 percent fewer youths under the agency’s supervision were re-arrested during the first six months of 2013, as compared to 2011.

Would eliminating the need to monitor people over the age of 18 improve the performance of the city’s chronically troubled Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services? Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) thinks so.

The family of Neil Michael Godleski — the 31-year-old Catholic University student who was shot and killed in a robbery attempt as he rode his bike through Sherman Circle last August — is now suing the city, claiming that the city’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services failed to keep the teen responsible under its watch.

A pair of disturbing reports this morning detail alleged sexual assaults inside the District government and on Metro.

A quick update to our item this morning about Brandon Sparrow, the DYRS ward who escaped from custody on Sunday morning at BWI: U.S. Marshals located Sparrow this morning in the District.

D.C. officials just cannot keep their grip on Brandon Sparrow — the 18-year-old ward of the District has now escaped from city custody for the third time.

More details are coming to light in the violent escape of a teenager from New Beginnings Youth Correctional Facility in Laurel on Sunday night — and, as expected, the incident is causing many to question the overall efficacy of the facility and the capability of the District’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services to manage it.

The District’s troubled Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services might not be getting its fourth director of the year after all. The Examiner reports that Robert Hildum is still on the job, despite the fact that his resignation was supposed to go into effect on Friday.