The scandal-plagued Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin is closing just weeks after a judge ordered the all-women's prison to be placed under unprecedented oversight, KTVU has learned.Bureau of Prisons Director Colette S. Peters told KTVU in an email on Monday that the all-women's prison is "not meeting expected standards and the best course of action is to close the facility."It's not clear whether it's a permanent or temporary closure, and the surprise announcement comes after a judge...
The beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons says it is planning to close a women’s prison in California known as the “rape club” despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse. Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters said in a statement to the AP that the agency had “taken unprecedented steps and provided a tremendous amount of resources to address culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure - and...
The rivalry between Canadian and U.S. women's hockey lived up to its billing again. Danielle Serdachny delivered the 2024 overtime gold-medal winner for Team Canada.
Women's rugby in the U.S. is going professional with the new Women's Elite Rugby competition. The league will officially launch next year with between 6 and 8 teams.
After a historic inaugural campaign, the awards continue to pile up for the Iowa women’s wrestling team. Head coach Clarissa Chun was named the USA Women’s Wrestling Coach of the Year on April 20. The announcement was made by the organization during the 2024 Olympic Team Trials in State College, Pennsylvania. This is Chun’s second
Melissa Witt vanished when she went to surprise her mother at a bowling alley. LaDonna Humphrey, a PI, has dedicated a decade to hunting down Witt's killer. Humphrey believes she has found a likely suspect who will face charges this year
Hopkinton, Massachusetts, celebrated its 100th anniversary as the starting line for the marathon, sending off a field of nearly 30,000 runners.
It was billed as a race that would be harder to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a hugely competitive race and set a new women’s-only world record. Jepchirchir, regarded as one of the greatest female distance runners of all time, raised her arms in jubilation as she crossed the tape in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds. The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the...
Law professor Alan Dershowitz predicted that Donald Trump would be murdered in prison if he is stripped of his Secret Service protections. Dershowitz made the remarks to Newsmax after Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) introduced a bill to revoke Secret Service benefits if the former president is convicted of a crime. "So he would not have Secret Service if he's behind bars," a Newsmax host told Dershowitz. "Well, that's ridiculous," the law professor replied. "That means that they want him...
Villanova transfer Lucy Olsen has officially committed to Iowa, potentially filling a gap left behind by seasoned seniors graduating from the program. A high-scorer who has been compared to Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, Olsen averaged 23.3 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game last year. She was the third leading scorer in the country last
EDINBURG — A 51-year-old Edinburg woman has been sentenced to prison after she was convicted for the murder of her husband on Dec. 8, 2019 following an argument regarding adultery.
The sun was barely up at the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin, but the prisoners knew there was something afoot. The inmate workers still hadn’t left for their jobs that morning, and there were extra guards at the troubled federal facility in Northern California. “We could tell these were not new officers,” Rhonda Fleming, a woman imprisoned at Dublin, told The Times in an email. “We knew they came from the men’s prison.” But the women could only guess what was happening — and it made...