POWERLESS IN PRISON: KTVU spoke to dozens of women over the last year, all of whom described surviving sexual assault and retaliation at FCI Dublin. Sen. Jon ossoff grilled the outgoing BOP director how he was keeping women safe at a hearing this summer.
nearly 30 years ago."I was petrified," she said. She said she was treated like"a whore" by the male staff."That's how they treated us," she said."Like we were prostitutes." Mercadel became a pastor upon her release. To this day, she said her mental health is poor, and she can't shake the trauma of what happened to her.
with a reassignment to another state. Instead of taking the new post, Korth retired, telling management to "shove it." "There's been a shake up in leadership at the prison and all the way up the Bureau of Prisons," Balsamo said. "I Meanwhile, the Department of Justice has vowed to prosecute any officer who is found having sex with incarcerated women and sources have told KTVU that "more charges are coming."a federal grand jury did just that; issuing an eight-count superseding indictment charging former Garcia with seven counts of sexually abusive conduct against three women who were in custody at the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin.
Currently, these complaints often fall on deaf ears or are looked into by Bureau of Prisons employees themselves. "We have to stop the way that we have to stop the way the bureau does stuff," Korth said. "You know, we have investigators that are the BOP. You know, how am I supposed to investigate somebody that I've known for 20 years?" And then there’s the issue of having male guards watch over female inmates.
In Michigan, for example, Kupers said that lawsuits have forced the corrections department to reach a compromise: Allowing male officers to be present in the facility, but not in the housing units or bathrooms where women dress and shower. There has been no public movement in the federal system or in California to tackle this issue. Better hiring procedures
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