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Excerpt:
     

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray says Council member Marion Barry’s efforts to hold up $1.5 million in funding for a trouble-plagued juvenile detention center has delayed security upgrades by “more than a month.”

Mr. Barry, Ward 8 Democrat, is known for holding up contracts or the reprogramming of budgeted money through “disapproval resolutions.” His most recent effort attempts to prevent the city from using capital dollars for “safety and security enhancements” at the New Beginnings Youth Development Center.

The Laurel, Md., facility, which houses juvenile wards of the  D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, had been plagued by attacks on officers, including an April 18 escape in which a youth beat an officer, took his keys and drove to Southeast in the officer’s car.

Mr. Barry said he introduced the resolution last month because he cannot get enough information from  DYRS about the agency’s performance.