Leopold: 'A View From The County Jail'

 

"From my window, I could see the rooftops of four or five houses through brown, leafless trees off in the distance. I wondered if I had ever met the occupants of these homes or knocked on their doors in some past election campaign."

In "A View from the County Jail," a two-page essay sent Wednesday to The Capital and the Maryland Gazette, former county executive John R. Leopold reflected for the first time on his time behind bars.

Leopold was released from the Jennifer Road Detention Center last week, after serving 30 days in jail for misconduct in office.
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