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Fifth BOP Staff Conviction and Sixth Arrest in California Prison ‘Rape Club’

Loaded on July 15, 2023 by Jo Ellen Nott published in Prison Legal News July, 2023, page 17
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct. Location: California.

by Jo Ellen Nott

Sexually abusive guards and their former warden are falling like dominoes as prisoners brave retaliation to report sexual abuse at the Federal Correction Institute (FCI) in Dublin, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lockup in California now known as the “Rape Club.”

Six staffers have been ...

 

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