A legal settlement was reached following years of a sex abuse scandal at a now-shuttered women's prison in Dublin, California, which mandates that the Bureau of Prisons provide better medical and mental healthcare, stop punishing women indiscriminately by putting them in isolation and open its doors and books to a court-appointed monitor who will...
A legal settlement was reached Friday following years of a sex abuse scandal at a now-shuttered women's prison in Dublin, California, which mandates that the Bureau of Prisons provide better medical and mental healthcare, stop punishing women indiscriminately by putting them in isolation and open its doors and books to a court-appointed monitor who will issue regular reports about what's going on. The 43-page agreement, formally called a consent decree that was filed in U.S.
About 500 women who used to be incarcerated at FCI Dublin and who were transferred to 13 prisons across the country. No. But one of the women's attorneys, Susan Beaty, said that they hope the other prisons will abide by the court mandates to everyone. Two years. Both the women's lawyers and the BOP want Wendy Still, who was appointed as a special master over the prison in May 2024, to oversee these court mandates.
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