A February 6 Associated Press investigation uncovered horrific violence against women at a federal correctional institution in Dublin, California. AP News obtained federal Bureau of Prisons documents and court records, and conducted interviews with “current and former prison employees and inmates.” The investigation uncovered “a permissive and toxic culture… enabling years of sexual misconduct by predatory employees and cover-ups that have largely kept the abuse out of the public eye.” In a follow-up article published on February 24, whistleblowers who work for the Bureau of Prisons allege that they are being retaliated against for shedding light on abuses at Dublin.
The investigation contains harrowing stories of inmates at the female-only Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin, which houses 783 individuals as of the time of this article’s publishing. According to the AP, the facility “was converted in 2012 to one of six women-only facilities in the federal prison system.” Allegations of wrongdoing at Dublin have already “resulted in four arrests,” and the AP points to this as “endemic of a larger problem within the beleaguered Bureau of Prisons.”
“Inmates and prison workers who spoke to the AP did not want their names published for fear of retaliation,” the investigation notes. “Women made the first internal complaints to staff members about five years ago, court records and internal agency documents show, but it’s not clear whether those...
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