https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210906-from-lockup-to-landslide-meet-dc-s-first-leader-elected-from-jail
A few miles from the gleaming sandstone porticos and colonnades of the White House, Washington's most unlikely elected official has an executive office of his own -- a cell in the District of Columbia Jail.
Joel Caston -- convicted for murder as a teenager a quarter-century ago -- is finding redemption through politics after becoming the first prisoner in the US capital ever to be elected to public office.
A few miles from the gleaming sandstone porticos and colonnades of the White House, Washington's most unlikely elected official has an executive office of his own -- a cell in the District of Columbia Jail.
Joel Caston -- convicted for murder as a teenager a quarter-century ago -- is finding redemption through politics after becoming the first prisoner in the US capital ever to be elected to public office.
