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The FBI confirmed agents were there conducting “court-authorized law enforcement activity” but declined to give details.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Attorney Kara Janssen, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP\"]‘Is this related to our ongoing case? We have a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about our clients who are still at this facility.’[/pullquote]“I can confirm we conducted court-authorized law enforcement activity at that location,” an FBI spokesperson told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kara Janssen is an attorney with Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP and represents inmates at FCI Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, we just have a lot of questions about what is going on,” Janssen said. “Is this related to our ongoing case? 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This new team has been charged with developing a plan for the future of the facility,” the BOP stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s search came days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978712/infamous-east-bay-womens-prison-hit-with-12-additional-sexual-assault-lawsuits\">a new wave of civil lawsuits alleging abuse at FCI Dublin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971511/judge-considers-federal-oversight-for-dublin-womens-prison-notorious-for-sexual-abuse\">as a federal judge weighs appointing a special master to oversee the prison’s operations\u003c/a>. The new claims filed last week bring the total number of lawsuits facing FCI Dublin to 63. It’s the latest cloud over the low-security facility about 21 miles east of Oakland.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Bureau of Prisons\"]‘Consistent with unprecedented and ongoing actions by FBOP leadership to create a positive change in the culture at FCI Dublin, recent developments have necessitated new executive employees be installed at the institution. This new team has been charged with developing a plan for the future of the facility.’[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-united-states-sexual-abuse-only-on-ap-d321ae51fe93dfd9d6e5754383a95801\">An AP investigation in 2021\u003c/a> found a culture of abuse and cover-ups that had persisted for years at the prison, which has more than 650 inmates. That reporting led to increased scrutiny from Congress and pledges from the Bureau of Prisons that it would fix problems and change the culture at the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least eight employees have been charged with sexually abusing inmates. Five have pleaded guilty. Two were convicted at trial. Another case is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All sexual activity between a prison worker and an inmate is illegal. 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It arrives on top of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958308/dublin-womens-prison-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-sexual-abuse-scandal\">major class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> against ongoing abuse and retaliation at the prison and demands for changes at the facility, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971786/theres-no-support-incarcerated-survivors-testify-in-east-bay-womens-prison-court-hearing\">still under review by a federal judge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these women have just faced horrific abuse and are seeking some sort of accountability,” Amaris Montes, an attorney with Rights Behind Bars, told KQED. “Their goal is not necessarily just damages, but to continue to speak about this issue and keep other people safe who are still in Dublin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight correctional officers are facing charges of sex crimes at FCI Dublin since 2022, and six of them have been convicted and sentenced, including the former warden and chaplain at the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, new officials have come in promising to turn around the scandal-ridden prison. 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But she nevertheless seemed unconvinced that the plaintiffs’ legal argument was strong enough to require further federal oversight of the embattled institution.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation= \"S.L., an incarcerated person at FCI Dublin\"]‘I can’t leave my room without feeling a sense of fear. The officers are so mean and make very degrading comments. I’ve been reporting and saying things and seeking help. But it’s not getting any better.”[/pullquote]“Whether it requires the massive relief you’re asking for is highly doubtful,” Gonzalez Rogers told attorneys for the plaintiffs after the hearing on Tuesday. She ordered both sides to submit briefs within the next few weeks and said she would decide after reviewing them whether to require any additional changes at the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing is the latest step in a broader potential \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958308/dublin-womens-prison-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-sexual-abuse-scandal\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed in August 2023 on behalf of eight women currently incarcerated at the East Bay prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lawsuit alleges that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has been aware of the problems at FCI Dublin — which has become known as the “rape club” — for decades and that the issues there are systemic, not just the fault of some “bad apples,” as government attorneys have argued. In addition to third-party oversight of the prison — known as appointing a “special master” — plaintiffs’ attorneys are also demanding a jury trial and damages for emotional and physical abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, about 45 inmates at the roughly 700-person women’s prison have filed charges of sexual misconduct, and at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/8-correctional-officers-now-charged-with-sex-abuse-at-fci-dublin-7-found-guilty\">seven correctional \u003c/a>staff have already been convicted or pleaded guilty of abuse, including its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934639/ex-warden-of-dublin-womens-prison-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-inmates\">former warden\u003c/a> and chaplain in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s left the culture of the prison “in shambles,” as Patrick Deveney, the new associate warden, put it. Trust at the facility has completely eroded, according to multiple staff members and incarcerated women who testified at the recent court hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a group of staff that were reeling from what had transpired. Staff felt hurt, angry, confused, completely failed by the previous administration,” Alison Mulcahy, the prison’s chief psychologist, said in court this week. “Individuals in our custody survived a lot of horrific things. There was a lot of mistrust and distrust. It was very adversarial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several of the nine prison employees who testified at the hearing said things are improving. The new administration said they have made it easier to report abuse, including setting up a new legal phone line that incarcerated women can use to contact lawyers more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, multiple women currently incarcerated at the prison testified that they have experienced ongoing retaliation from officers when they report abuse and said they have avoided reporting various instances of misconduct, fearing repercussions, like losing access to the commissary, jobs and phone or visitor time.[aside label=\"more on FCI Dublin\" tag=\"dublin-prison\"]Many incarcerated women who testified also said that after reporting abuse, they were denied appropriate medical care. Multiple women said they had been suicidal or attempted suicide, and despite notifying staff, could not get crucial medications and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t leave my room without feeling a sense of fear. The officers are so mean and make very degrading comments,’” a woman identified as S.L., who is currently incarcerated at the prison, told the judge this week. “I’ve been reporting and saying things and seeking help. But it’s not getting any better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another currently incarcerated woman, identified as C.A.H., testified in Spanish that after she reported being raped by a correctional officer, she was disciplined, threatened with solitary confinement, and denied her epilepsy medication. She said she is now having two to three seizures a week and suffering injuries and memory loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulcahy, the psychologist, came on staff in the fall of 2022, shortly after the warden, chaplain and several staff were found guilty of sexually abusing inmates. She said problems with medical and mental health care are largely due to understaffing and that several therapy groups in the prison currently have hundreds of people on their waitlists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would love to run more groups and be fully staffed,” Mulcahy said. She added that some psychiatric medications that some incarcerated women may have received during previous confinements at state institutions are not permitted under federal prison policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monte Wilson, the prison health services administrator, also testified about understaffing at the prison, noting that it is currently short two physicians and three mid-level health providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s caused distrust in the medical process,” Wilson said in court on Monday, adding that there are only two physicians at the facility — for the more than 700 women incarcerated there. Witnesses testified that it can sometimes take up to 90 days to get even routine appointments with specialists, including oncologists, for cancer treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Gonzalez Rogers expressed concern about the way guards treated some suicidal women. She also grilled prison officials over their use of solitary confinement after hearing several incarcerated women describe how it had been used as a retaliatory measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials denied that allegation, arguing that they had resorted to solitary confinement in certain instances for safety reasons due to the lack of intermediate-level housing for those who needed protection from the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me tell you something. You’re going to have to figure it out, because I’m not going to tolerate it,” the judge told the associate warden, referring to the use of solitary confinement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of women who testified also described other degrading forms of retaliation that occurred after meeting with their attorneys, like being strip-searched by guards and being watched as they went to the bathroom. While administrators said these practices are a matter of policy, the women said they were enforced against them selectively and only began happening in the last month as they were preparing for this hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these atrocities that are taking place in retaliation, it is wrong,” said Robin Lucas, who survived sexual assault while incarcerated at FCI Dublin 30 years ago. Lucas was at the courthouse in support of survivors who had come forward to speak. “You’re here to pay your debt to society. If you did something wrong, you go to prison to do your time. 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