The program begins tomorrow. In the past, about 98 percent of individuals who surrendered at the event went home the same day.

The D.C. Council is expected to debate a pair of competing bills that would lay out protections for ex-convicts looking for jobs and housing.

Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) used some cunning parliamentary procedure yesterday to muscle a bill through his committee that would offer protections to ex-convicts while they search for jobs and housing.