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The national Bureau of Prisons said Monday it is readying to adjacent a women's situation successful California known arsenic the "rape club" contempt attempts to betterment the troubled installation aft an Associated Press probe exposed rampant staff-on-inmate intersexual abuse.
Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters said successful a connection to the AP that the bureau had "taken unprecedented steps and provided a tremendous magnitude of resources to code culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure - and astir captious - worker misconduct."
"Despite these steps and resources, we person determined that FCI Dublin is not gathering expected standards and that the champion people of enactment is to adjacent the facility," Peters said. "This determination is being made aft ongoing valuation of the effectiveness of those unprecedented steps and further resources."
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FCI Dublin, astir 21 miles (34 kilometers) eastbound of Oakland, is 1 of six women-only national prisons, and the lone 1 westbound of the Rocky Mountains. It presently has 605 inmates - 504 inmates successful its main situation and different 101 astatine an adjacent minimum-security camp. That's down from a full of 760 prisoners successful February 2022. The women presently housed astatine the situation volition beryllium transferred to different facilities and nary employees volition suffer their jobs, Peters said.
Advocates person called for inmates to beryllium freed from FCI Dublin, which they accidental is not lone plagued by intersexual maltreatment but besides has hazardous mold, asbestos and inadequate wellness care.
Last month, the FBI again searched the situation and the Bureau of Prisons again shook up its enactment aft a warden sent to assistance rehabilitate the installation was accused of retaliating against a whistleblower inmate. Days later, a national justice overseeing lawsuits against the prison, said she would name a peculiar maestro to oversee the facility's operations.
An AP probe successful 2021 recovered a civilization of maltreatment and cover-ups that had persisted for years astatine the prison. That reporting led to accrued scrutiny from Congress and pledges from the Bureau of Prisons that it would hole problems and alteration the civilization astatine the prison.
Since 2021, astatine slightest 8 FCI Dublin employees person been charged with sexually abusing inmates. Five person pleaded guilty. Two were convicted astatine trial, including the erstwhile warden, Ray Garcia. Another lawsuit is pending.
Last August, 8 FCI Dublin inmates sued the Bureau of Prisons, alleging the bureau had failed to basal retired intersexual abuse. Amaris Montes, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said inmates continued to look retaliation for reporting abuse, including being enactment successful solitary confinement and having belongings confiscated.
All intersexual enactment betwixt a situation idiosyncratic and an inmate is illegal. Correctional employees person important powerfulness implicit inmates, controlling each facet of their lives from mealtime to lights out, and determination is nary script successful which an inmate tin springiness consent.
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