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Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters said in a statement to the AP that the agency had “taken unprecedented steps and provided a tremendous amount of resources to address culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure - and most critical - employee misconduct.”

“Despite these steps and resources, we have determined that FCI Dublin is not meeting expected standards and that the best course of action is to close the facility,” Peters said. “This decision is being made after ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of those unprecedented steps and additional resources.”

FCI Dublin, about 21 miles (34 kilometers) east of Oakland, is one of six women-only federal prisons, and the only one west of the Rocky Mountains. It currently has 605 inmates — 504 inmates in its main prison and another 101 at an adjacent minimum-security camp. That’s down from a total of 760 prisoners in February 2022. The women currently housed at the prison will be transferred to other facilities and no employees will lose their jobs, Peters said.

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[-] WraithGear@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Is this a ”we have done nothing and are out of ideas!” Thing. Or a “nothing we are doing is stopping the rapes, we have done everything short of holding the officers accountable, and for some reason it still happens!” Thing?

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago
[-] APassenger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Guards have been tried and convicted. Sent to jail. The whole bit.

But the issues appear to be entrenched and resistant to cooperation or accountability through usual channels.

Shutting it down to hopefully stop the abuses makes sense to me. They've been openly flouting accountability after multiple attempts and over multiple years.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

No more prison, no more rapes! Problem solved!

They won't be putting the inmates somewhere else, right?

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

They certainly won't place the guards at other prisons

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 months ago

"No employees will lose their jobs"

Oh so this is going to happen again huh? The Catholic priest solution, just ship the problematic people to places that don't know they're problematic. Job well done.

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