Security cameras, or rather the lack thereof, and the many dead spots of video coverage is a central theme of the sex abuse trial against the former warden, charged with fondling, groping and taking naked photos of at least three women incarcerated under his care at the Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin.
Over the course of eight months, KTVU has spoken with more than three dozen women who say they have been sexually assaulted or witnessed such abuse at FCI Dublin. Many who spoke up were retaliated against.Security cameras, or rather the lack thereof, and the many dead spots of video coverage is a central theme of the sex abuse trial against the former warden, charged with fondling, groping and taking naked photos of at least three women incarcerated under his care at theRay J.
On Tuesday, former FCI Dublin unit manager Stephanie Millikin testified that the prison lacks enough cameras, not all of them that are there actually work, not all of them are monitored and that footage can be deleted for unknown reasons and unknown times. The warden would know these things, she testified.
He showed KTVU some of the documentation that he provided higher-ups stemming from 2014, when he wrote "surveillance cameras are in dire need of repair and additional cameras are needed. The cameras that are functioning are blurry and need to be re-focused or repaired." He said that 99% of the correctional officers who work at FCI Dublin are honest, good, hard-working people who do not abuse the incarcerated women.
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