Women who were transferred from FCI Dublin to prisons across the country are alleging poor treatment and retaliation by staff and officers in facilities on both coasts.
"We have been subject to mental, emotional, and verbal abuse because we were housed at Dublin," a group of women wrote in a letter they sent to KTVU from Federal Detention Camp in Miami. The allegations include being served inferior meals, rude comments and being mocked for filing a PREA, a claim of sexual abuse known legally as the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
" Tyra Deja Mabon wrote KTVU from Federal Detention Center SeaTac in Seattle, where she said that women from FCI Dublin haven't been given soap, pillows, clean laundry or cleaning supplies. The beds are soiled and many women still haven't received medical care. She said the women get looks if they want to make phone calls to their lawyers. "They keep locking us in all the time like we are a threat," Mabon wrote from prison, allowing KTVU to use her name.
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