The Department of Justice on Monday notified the Washington, D.C., Department of Corrections that it would open an investigation into the treatment of prisoners and conditions inside the district’s prisons and jails.

Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s civil rights division, wrote the letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser informing the district of plans to investigate DCDOC to determine whether it “engages in a pattern or practice of violating the constitutional rights of inmates.”

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