News about Marion Barry

Rayful Edmond, 59, sparked a crack epidemic in the nation's capital when he swamped DC with the then relatively unknown cocaine derivative in the 1980s, supplying up to two tons a week to the city's dealers. His 150-strong organization was directly implicated in up to 30 murders a year as the city descended into deadly turf wars before he was handed a life sentence without parole in 1990. A judge in Pennsylvania denied his request for compassionate release as recently as last week, but the Federal Bureau of Prisons has confirmed that he was moved to a residential re-entry center in Nashville on Wednesday.