The 44-year-old felon, convicted of murder as a teenager, became the newest elected public servant in Washington, D.C., this summer.
"Joel is making the impossible possible," said inmate Ahmaad Nelms, who is serving an 18-month sentence in D.C. jail."I want him to be the great commissioner he is, man, and show kids that you can be whatever you want to be."
The commission oversees ground-level issues of neighborhood residents, including liquor license approvals, sidewalk repair and public safety concerns. In 1994, it was in the same part of D.C. that as a teenager swept up in a culture of drugs and guns Caston was arrested and later convicted in the shooting death of another young Black man, 18-year-old Rafiq Washington."You could get hurt walking to the store," Uzzle explained of how unforgiving life on the streets could be at the time."So, if Joel was fighting, we had to fight. If I was fighting, they had to fight.
Behind bars, Caston has taught himself Arabic and Mandarin, studies the bible in French and Spanish, created a mentoring program for young inmates and has published a curriculum of books that teaches the basics of investments and savings.
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