Ray J. Garcia, who retired after the FBI found nude photos of inmates on his government-issued phone last year, is among five workers charged with abusing inmates at a federal women’s prison in Dublin, Calif., and the first to go to trial.
and pledges from the federal Bureau of Prisons that it would fix problems and change the culture at the prison.
She testified that their first sexual encounter was in the bathroom of the visitation room where he groped her breasts and inserted his finger in her vagina, and grabbed her hand and rubbed it over his clothes against his penis.“I couldn’t believe it was happening, but I felt like he loved me and he cared about me and I wanted to make him happy,” she said.
“The evidence is not going to show one single video of any of these supposed events,” Garcia’s defense lawyer, James Reilly, said. In court papers, the defense argued that Garcia took pictures of one inmate because he wanted documentation that she was breaching policy by standing around naked. Garcia was promoted from associate warden to warden in November 2020 while he was still abusing inmates, prosecutors say. The Bureau of Prisons has said it didn’t find out about the abuse until later. Garcia is the highest-ranking federal prison official arrested in more than 10 years., Colette Peters, has reiterated the agency’s zero-tolerance policy for staff sexual misconduct and has called for harsher punishment for workers who commit abuse.
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