By Noah Goldberg | LA Times
A women’s federal prison in Alameda County with an ugly history of sexual abuse of inmates by staff needs to be overseen by an outside monitor, a federal judge has ruled.
In a decision released Friday, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered the appointment of a special master to implement reforms and other judicial orders at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, where eight different members of the staff, including a warden, have been indicted on federal sexual abuse charges. Six have been sentenced.
The judge called the prison a “dysfunctional mess.”
“The situation can no longer be tolerated. The facility is in dire need of immediate change,” said Gonzalez Rogers in her order.
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