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...
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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...
A women's prison in California so plagued by sexual abuse that it was known among inmates and workers as the "rape club" will be closed, the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters said that the agency is closing the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, where more than a half-dozen correctional officers and the former warden have either been charged or convicted of sexually abusing the female inmates. Peters stated that the bureau...
Federal officials are set to close the so-called 'rape club' prison in Dublin, where guards and the warden were charged or convicted of sexual abuse.
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...
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Hundreds of Munitionette teams played in Britain during the first world war – and their story is being told on stageMoving the Goalposts: sign up for our free newsletterMuch as followers of men’s football of a certain age and type sometimes struggle to comprehend the fact that the sport existed before Italia 90, recent aficionados of the women’s game can be rather blank about its history pre-Canada 2015.Even those aware that women’s football was banned by England’s Football Association for 50...
Since 2021, eight employees of Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, charged with assaulting female prisonersThe US Bureau of Prisons (BoP) is closing a federal women’s prison in California that has been plagued by rampant staff sexual abuse of incarcerated residents.Colette Peters, the BoP director, said in a statement to the Associated Press on Monday that Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin was “not meeting expected standards and that the best course of action is...
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Bureau Of Prisons officials said the scandal-plagued prison in Dublin, California 'did not meet expected standards' and was found to have mold and asbestos. The prison was known as the 'rape club' due to years of staff-on-inmate abuse. Several famous inmates, including Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman, and Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, did their time at the facility
by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson No Virginia prison gangs before 2004 With the prevalence of youth lumpen organizations (so called street gangs) in Virginia today, it’s hard to believe that there were actually no gangs (especially no Black ones) in Virginia’s prisons prior to 2004. The culture never took root because Virginia’s own culture of prisoner […]