Buses were seen leaving the troubled FCI Dublin women's prison on Wednesday, shipping women off to far-flung facilities across the country.
Buses were seen leaving the troubled FCI Dublin women's prison on Wednesday, shipping women off to far-flung facilities across the country.On Monday, the Bureau of Prisons decided to shut down the facility, where sex crimes, retaliation, mold and asbestos have plagued the property for years.The news came as a surprise to the women, their families and U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers named a special master to oversee reforms over the prison on April 5.
" Knudsen said he didn't know where his daughter was being sent.Matthew Ellison also told KTVU that his wife was transferred as well. "She was told she had 15 minutes to pack," he said. The only other minimum- and low-security all-women's federal prisons in the country are in West Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Connecticut, Florida and Minnesota.
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