Natalie Hanson, Courthouse News Service

A federal judge said following an unannounced tour of a low-security federal prison, she has concerns about procedures at the facility that prisoners say include ramped-up invasive searches and oversight.

Kallie Cox, Riverfront Times

Corrections Commissioner Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah remains in the hot seat.

Natalie Hanson, Courthouse News Service

Women incarcerated at FCI Dublin described feeling powerless to stop mistreatment and sexual abuse, despite the government's reports of reform at the prison.

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.

Sydney Johnson, KQED

Survivors of sexual abuse at a federal East Bay women’s prison said inappropriate conduct and retaliation persist, multiple women incarcerated at the facility told a federal judge on Friday.

CBS Bay Area

DUBLIN – Following three days of testimony from incarcerated survivors of sexual abuse at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, the legal teams representing the victims held a press conference Friday outside of U.S. District Court in Oakland.

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.

Natalie Hanson, Courthouse News Service

OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — A judge is weighing a preliminary injunction demanding that the government take action on abuses of incarcerated people at a federal prison for women in the San Francisco Bay Area, in new claims that the prison enabled a pattern of abuse.

Dana DiFilippo, New Jersey Monitor

New Jersey correctional officers showed “deliberate indifference” when they confiscated the cane an incarcerated man used because of a painful spinal condition and repeatedly refused to return it to him, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Marlo Lacen, KTAL News

A lawsuit was filed against the Louisiana Department of Corrections and Prison Enterprises that challenges the forced agricultural labor practices at the Louisiana State Penitentiary known as Angola.

Jennsen Bentley, Big Easy Magazine

The Promise of Justice Initiative (PJI) and Rights Behind Bars, two nonprofit advocacy groups, filed a lawsuit against the Louisiana Department of Corrections and Prison Enterprises challenging the practice of forced agricultural labor at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, or Angola.

Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday, contending they have been forced to work in the prison’s fields for little or no pay, even when temperatures soar past 100 degrees. They described the conditions as cruel, degrading and often dangerous.

Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle

Prisoners at the federal women’s prison in Dublin, where a former warden and six staff members have already been convicted of sexual assault, filed suit Wednesday accusing officials of fostering a climate of abuse and retaliating against those who report it.

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.

Sydney Johnson, KQED

Survivors of sexual abuse on Wednesday filed a class-action lawsuit against guards and officials at FCI Dublin, a federal women’s prison where plaintiffs argue there are inadequate systems for preventing, detecting, investigating and responding to rape and sexual assault at the facility.