“It’s horrible. It’s absolutely horrible,' said Thahesha Jusino, FCI Dublin's newly installed warden. I’ve never experienced anything like this. In my career, I’ve never been part of a situation like this. This is really unprecedented.”
, the head of the federal Bureau of Prisons had submitted his resignation in January. Yet no one had been named to replace him, so he was still on the job.
"We’ve really lost a lot of credibility through all of this, which is understandable, because it’s appalling what has happened," Jusino said in an interview with the AP. But even as the task force was arriving, and as scrutiny from the outside appeared finally to be at hand, things did not seem to be proceeding in a positive direction.
She objected. She wanted to wait so she could tell her story publicly to congressional leaders expected at the prison. But people at the prison say she wasn’t able to thoroughly express her concerns. Garcia is accused of molesting an inmate on multiple occasions from December 2019 to March 2020 and forcing her and another inmate to strip naked so he could take pictures while he made rounds. Investigators said they found the images on his government-issued cellphone. His lawyer refused an interview request.telling her that he was "close friends" with the person investigating staff misconduct and boasting that he could not be fired. He has pleaded not guilty.
In 1977, the Bureau of Prisons converted the facility into a traditional adult prison — first for female inmates like the high-profile heiress Patty Hearst and then, in 1980, for men and women. It went back to being a women’s prison in 2012.In 1996, three female inmates sued the Bureau of Prisons, alleging they were "sold like sex slaves" by correctional officers who placed them in a male unit, unlocked their cells and allowed male inmates to rape them.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, who is being briefed regularly on issues in the beleaguered federal prison system, said the Justice Department was committed to "holding BOP personnel accountable, including through criminal charges." Said Monaco: "Staff misconduct, at any level, will not be tolerated, and our efforts to root it out are far from over."
Though Dublin does have some cameras, there were none in some of the hallways and rooms that Carvajal toured, including areas where some inmates were sexually abused. Several times the director asked, "Where are the cameras?" The Bureau of Prisons "is never proactive. They’re reactive. They’re only doing this because Congress is on their ass and they know they have to act," Dublin union president Ed Canales said.
One inmate asked: "Is this just for show so that you can say you came before the Congress comes back?" Observed another: "It is just as I thought. The task force was here to head them off and tell them that they were on top of issues that were raised.
In February, more than 100 inmate advocacy organizations sent a letter to the Justice Department calling for "swift, sweeping action" to address abuse at Dublin, including an independent investigation and the release of victimized inmates to prevent further trauma, but never got a response.
Among other things, the Women in Criminal Justice Reform Act would require minimum standards of care and conditions for federal prison facilities where women are held, temporary release of inmates for medical services such as care from a sexual assault nurse examiner and training for federal prison workers in trauma-informed screening and care.
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