Women at California prison dubbed the ‘rape club’ now worry where they’ll be transferred
The sun was barely up at the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin, California, but the prisoners knew there was something afoot. The inmate workers still hadn’t left for their jobs that morning, and there were extra guards at the troubled federal facility in Northern California. “We could tell these were not new officers,” Rhonda Fleming, a woman imprisoned at Dublin, told the Los Angeles ...
The sun was barely up at the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin, California, but the prisoners knew there was something afoot.
The inmate workers still hadn’t left for their jobs that morning, and there were extra guards at the troubled federal facility in Northern California.
“We could tell these were not new officers,” Rhonda Fleming, a woman imprisoned at Dublin, told the Los Angeles Times in an email. “We knew they came from the men’s prison.”
But the women could only guess what was happening — and it made them tense.
After years of controversy, lawsuits and sexual abuse scandals, on Monday the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced plans to close the facility. But instead of bringing relief, for
