Prisons are really a money scam.
There should be jails for small crimes and executions for big crimes. This “in between” thing of prisons is a waste and stupid.
Of course there are going to be rape clubs at a women’s prison. Women wouldn’t tolerate it any other way. Just because they’re locked up doesn’t mean the part is going to end.
The US Bureau of Prisons (BoP) announced on Thursday it was permanently closing a California women’s prison plagued by staff sexual misconduct scandals, and suspending operations at six other federal institutions.
The shutdowns come as the federal agency is facing intensifying scrutiny surrounding guards’ rampant sexual abuse of incarcerated residents, a crisis of suicides and preventable deaths across its prisons and reports of severe medical neglect.
The BoP is permanently shuttering the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin, a low-security facility east of Oakland, which was known internally as the “rape club” due to the widespread, documented staff assaults of women in custody. Seven former officers have been criminally convicted for a range of sexual offenses, including the former warden, and more than 20 were placed on leave and are under investigation. FCI Dublin was temporarily closed in April after a US judge appointed a special master to oversee the embattled facility, and hundreds of incarcerated residents were transferred to institutions across the US.
The BoP said Thursday that it had also “deactivated” prisons and camps in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida, with incarcerated residents transferred elsewhere. The bureau cited “critical staffing shortage, crumbling infrastructure, and limited budgetary resources”, and said employees would also be transferred, asserting that the bureau was “not downsizing” and that it was “committed to finding positions for every employee who wants to remain with the agency”.
The BoP also said it had been “unable to maintain staffing levels” at Dublin “due to the high cost of living and competition from other area law enforcement agencies”. The announcement did not address the sexual abuse scandals.
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Susan Beaty, senior attorney with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, and co-counsel in a pending class-action lawsuit against the BoP over the abuse in Dublin, said there were dozens of survivors of staff sexual misconduct who remain incarcerated, including three named plaintiffs in the litigation. “Closing Dublin is acknowledging that they don’t have the resources or ability to keep people in their custody safe,” they said. “One very easy solution to that problem is to release people.”
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Records have repeatedly suggested that staff sexual abuse is a systemic problem beyond Dublin. The US Senate reported in 2022 that staff had sexually abused women in custody in at least two-thirds of its facilities over the last decade, with some victims repeatedly targeted for months or years.
Maybe it was the guards that were being abused?
Ever think of that?
The rape club.