Inside one of the only federal women's prisons in the United States, inmates say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.
While a million workers still can't get unemployment benefits, EDD paid out a quarter million dollars to jail inmates running a scheme behind bars.
One inmate who reported a 2017 sexual assault said she was told nothing would be done about her complaint because it was a"he said-she said." The woman, who is now suing the Bureau of Prisons over her treatment, said she was fired from her prison commissary job as retaliation. When she went to report her firing, she said a Dublin counselor took her abuser's side, responding:"Child, do you want him to lose his job?" The woman was moved to a different prison a week later.
Two of the men are expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks in federal court to charges of sexual abuse of a ward. None of the men accused in civil suits has been charged with crimes. Several Dublin workers are under investigation, though it's not clear whether the men accused in the civil suits are among them.
"If they're undressing, I've already looked," Garcia, 54, told the FBI in July 2021, according to court records."I don't, like, schedule a time like 'you be undressed, and I'll be there.'" Despite the move, prosecutors said, Klinger kept contacting one of victim through an email address he created with a phony name, sometimes sending lewd messages referencing sexual acts, and messaged the other woman on Snapchat, saying he loved her and was"willing to do anything" for her.
John Russell Bellhouse, 39, a prison safety administrator, is scheduled to be arraigned this month on charges he sexually abused an inmate he called his"girlfriend" from February to December 2020. He was placed on leave in March and arrested in December.
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