John Bellhouse of Pleasanton is one of six staff members at the prison in Dublin, Calif., to be arrested in connection with sexual abuse allegations. Four have been convicted.
staff members to be arrested in connection with sexual abuse at the prison, four of whom have been convicted.
Inmates have referred to the facility — a low-security prison for women 20 miles southeast of Oakland — as a “In March, former prison warden Ryan J. Garcia was convicted of having sex with and sexually abusing inmates. He was sentenced to 70 months in prison. Former prison chaplain James Theodore Hughes is currently appealing a seven-year prison sentence for abusive sexual contact and making false statements to the FBI.
And last month, former corrections officer Darrell Wayne Smith was charged with abusing multiple women in their cells and in the prison laundry room from 2019 to 2021. Bellhouse was originally charged in February 2022 with the sexual abuse of one inmate, but a new indictment filed in September charged him with the sexual abuse of two other inmates between December 2019 and December 2020, with some of the incidents taking place at the prison’s safety office.
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