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Judge slams BOP for trying to dismiss FCI Dublin case; grills deputy director
Lisa Fernandez, KTVU
OAKLAND, Calif. - A federal judge on Friday slammed lawyers for the Bureau of Prisons for trying to dismiss a lawsuit over sexual abuse and retaliation at the now-shuttered FCI Dublin, while she also grilled the deputy director of the federal prison system, who flew in from Washington, D.C., to Oakland for the hearing.
Prison oversight bill inspired by FCI Dublin sexual abuse, corruption heads to Biden
Lisa Fernandez, KTVU
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons where reporting from The Associated Press exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and reporting from KTVU highlighted the intense sexual abuses at the all-women's prison in Dublin, Calif.
FCI Dublin transfers complain of poor treatment, retaliation at other prisons
Lisa Fernandez, KTVU
DUBLIN, Calif. - Women who were transferred from FCI Dublin to prisons across the country are alleging poor treatment and retaliation by staff and officers in facilities on both coasts.
FCI Dublin closing, women transferred to prisons across U.S.
Lisa Fernandez, KTVU
DUBLIN, Calif. - 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.
FCI Dublin: Judge orders unprecedented 'special master' over troubled prison
Lisa Fernandez, KTVU
OAKLAND, Calif. - A federal judge on Friday ordered a "special master" to oversee the goings-on at the Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin – the first time a Bureau of Prisons facility has been placed under such oversight in U.S. history.
FCI Dublin prison officers are angry with new administration and 'we are paying for it,' woman testifies
Lisa Fernandez, KTVU
OAKLAND, Calif. - One by one, women incarcerated at the beleaguered Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin testified in federal court on Friday, complaining of officers groping them, taunting them, strip searching them, denying them medical care, opening their legal mail and retaliating against them for reporting wrongdoing.
Facing more than 45 sex abuse suits, judge could appoint special master over FCI Dublin prison
Lisa Fernandez, KTVU
A federal court judge is being asked to appoint a "special master" over the Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin, an all-women's prison notoriously nicknamed the "Rape Club" after eight correctional officers have been charged with sexual assault and more than 45 civil cases have been filed alleging the same abuses.
Dublin federal prison sex assault victims file lawsuit
Lisa Fernandez, KTVU
OAKLAND, Calif. - Sex abuse survivors at an all-women's prison in Dublin filed a sweeping and major class-action lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging that people incarcerated there have been raped, forced to undress in order to be released from cells, drugged, groped and targeted with threats of deportation, among other atrocities.
Dublin prison sex assault survivors should be released: advocacy groups
Lisa Fernandez, KTVU
A coalition of advocacy groups and lawyers on Thursday demanded that sexual assault survivors at the all-women's Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin be released.