Nearly 500 female inmates who joined a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin will be provided protections for two years.
Inmates at a recently shuttered, scandal-plagued Bay Area women's prison dubbed 'the rape club' have reached a historic settlement that will increase oversight and protections for about 500 inmates transferred out of that facility and into federal prisons across the U.S.
' Under the agreement, class members will no longer be placed in solitary confinement for low-level disciplinary charges and will be guaranteed timely disciplinary proceedings in an effort to prevent retaliatory behavior by prison guards. They will also have confidential means to report abuse and violations of the consent decree.
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