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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He was perceived by their mother to be a positive influence for her family,” Joseph said. After gaining the family’s trust, he violated program policy by spending time with the sisters outside the program, with their mother’s knowledge, which is when the alleged misconduct occurred, Joseph said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Duran’s participation in the program was voluntary, he served in his “official capacity as a police officer,” Joseph noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said Duran is alleged to have assaulted both sisters at the time, but the extended statute of limitations allowed for charges based only on his actions against the younger sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duran is charged with five counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child who is 14 or 15 years old, Rosen said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen noted the alleged conduct with the older sister, and some alleged conduct when the younger sister later turned 18, “will be very relevant for a jury to hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said Duran was fired from The Parent Project based on complaints that he was spending time with women and girls involved with the program outside of its normal hours. None of the complaints described actions that were “criminal in nature,” Rosen said, “but in hindsight, were concerning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Rosen and Joseph encouraged anyone else with similar stories to the sisters to come forward to police, even if they were afraid to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Afraid because the offender was a police officer because too much time had passed, or because they believed he would be protected by his fellow officers,” Joseph said. “Our actions today will hopefully show that there is no protection for any officer who is alleged to have committed such a serious crime or who has caused harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen defended The Parent Project as an “extremely successful program,” and said nothing like this has been reported before, but said his office is now reevaluating “how we vet and train the teachers of the program to try to make sure that nothing like this happens again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph said he ordered an “immediate review of all policies and procedures for all specific programs involving minors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under requirements from a state law passed in 2021, the department also forwarded information about the sexual misconduct investigation to the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, known as the POST Commission. The information could later be used in a process to decertify Duran, which would prohibit him from working as a police officer in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duran, who was placed on administrative leave by the police department about a week before his arrest, is next scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank both of these young women for their courage. Without them, we would all still be in the dark,” Rosen said. “We will get justice for them and protect this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The police department said anyone who wants to share information about this case or similar experiences should contact Detective Sergeant Kilmer #3723 or Detective Sergeant Sanchez #4126 of the SJPD Internal Affairs, Criminal Investigations Detail by email at 3723@sanjoseca.gov and/or 4126@sanjoseca.gov, or 408-277-4082. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Aja Jasmin arrived at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a> in September 2021, her fear about the federal women’s prison immediately became reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her medical intake examination, she said the officer on duty — who she said told her he was a nurse — ordered her to expose her breasts and touched her pubic area under the guise of a check for a skin rash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had said to lift my shirt up, as well as my bra, and pull down my pants,” she told KQED. “When I told him no, he said if I didn’t, it would be considered insubordination and that I shouldn’t want to start my time off like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first introduction to Dublin was my introduction with him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasmin had heard about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971511/judge-considers-federal-oversight-for-dublin-womens-prison-notorious-for-sexual-abuse\">sexual abuse accusations\u003c/a> swirling around FCI Dublin after its former warden, Ray Garcia, was walked off the campus and placed on administrative leave just months before. She said her husband had reassured her that she should be safe, since the facility was likely under additional scrutiny in the scandal’s wake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was not what happened,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12047092 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250530-DublinEmployees-61-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250530-DublinEmployees-61-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250530-DublinEmployees-61-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250530-DublinEmployees-61-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. The prison was a low-security women’s facility with a history of staff sexual abuse scandals. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Wilson, the officer who Jasmin said assaulted her on her first day, is one of two former correctional officers who were charged last week with sexually abusing women under their care at the prison. In total, 10 former employees at the now-shuttered facility have now been charged with such crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson is charged with five counts of sexual abuse against a woman incarcerated at Dublin between March and August of 2022. Prosecutors allege he forced his penis into her mouth on four occasions and penetrated her with his fingers on another, according to the charging document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also faces an additional charge for allegedly telling federal agents that he had no sexual contact with the victim and had never given her contraband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accusations made by Jasmin are not included in the charges, though she told KQED she spoke with federal agents multiple times throughout their investigation.[aside postID=news_12043352 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-52-BL-KQED-672x372.jpg']Lawrence Gacad, the other guard charged last week, faces one count of abusive sexual contact that allegedly took place the same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges are the latest in a yearslong FBI investigation into FCI Dublin. More than 100 women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct at the facility, where reporting from the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> in 2021 uncovered a culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-up that led staffers and women incarcerated there to call the prison “the rape club.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bureau of Prisons said it could not comment on pending litigation or ongoing investigations, citing safety and privacy reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest charges come two years after a wave of eight former employees, including Garcia, were indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendra Drysdale, who was a victim of abuse while at Dublin in 2023 and 2024, said the new charges revived her hope that the Department of Justice was continuing to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, offenders — including the officer who she said abused her — have not faced repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250530-DublinEmployees-57-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250530-DublinEmployees-57-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250530-DublinEmployees-57-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250530-DublinEmployees-57-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They completely protected the officer,” she said, adding that the true number of employees who abused women there, and continue to at other Bureau of Prison facilities, is much greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These 10 that have been charged are just a few of the many,” she told KQED. “The system is hugely built on protection and cover-ups. It’s just a widespread culture of complicity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drysdale, who now works as an advocacy coordinator for the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, said that after reporting her offender, she was accused of filing a false Prison Rape Elimination Act violation and was retaliated against, losing access to phone calls with her daughter and commissary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was forced to work in the department her offender oversaw until she was released from Dublin the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">week the facility was abruptly shut down\u003c/a> in April 2024.[aside postID=news_12045925 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-AntiochPolice-02-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']She said women who have made similar allegations face similar retaliation, as do those who were part of a class-action lawsuit that led to a landmark consent decree awarding women at Dublin special protections while they are incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">two class-action suits\u003c/a> that have been settled with the BOP, about 300 women who remained incarcerated after the closure and were moved to other federal facilities are supposed to receive special protections including monitoring surrounding their medical and mental health care and in instances when they are placed in solitary housing or report retaliation, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this week, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982014/judge-chooses-top-pick-for-special-master-to-oversee-womens-prison-following-rampant-abuse\">court-appointed “special master”\u003c/a> tasked with tracking prisons’ compliance with those protections found that in April 2025, the first month since the consent decree went into effect, the BOP failed to comply or only partially complied with nearly all of the agreed-upon protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s devastating,” Drysdale said. “This report, although not surprising, was really upsetting to know that nothing’s changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report from special master Wendy Still said that in the monthlong period, there were 13 complaints of sexual abuse and three of physical abuse that, in some cases, warranted no follow-up action from staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen women also reported retaliation by staff because of their status as part of the class-action suit, including during instances when they were placed in solitary housing, removed from specific programs or lacked responses to requests for remedies promised to class members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into staff sexual abuse allegations at two women’s prisons in Chowchilla and Chino, following a series of lawsuits and similar abuses at federal facilities like FCI Dublin, which was closed due to widespread misconduct. \u003ccite>(J. David Ake/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one case, Still wrote, a class member lost recreation time for 120 days after being charged with refusing to obey an order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although this is a sanction available to the [unit disciplinary committee] … [it] is an extreme penalty in relation to the violation,” her report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said class members were also struggling to access medical and mental health care, in part due to systemic understaffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drysdale believes the report “shows that they’re either unwilling or incapable or both of providing care and safety for our class members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, oversight isn’t working,” she said. The California Coalition for Women Prisoners has called for all of the members of the class to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new charges against Wilson and Gacad come as Darrell Wayne Smith, the only other correctional officer charged in the probe who has not yet been sentenced, awaits a new trial. In April, his criminal trial on charges of abusive contact with five women \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035958/mistrial-declared-fci-dublin-sex-abuse-case-jury-deadlocks-all-charges\">ended in a mistrial\u003c/a> after a jury was unable to agree on any of the 15 counts against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense argued that the women who accused him of assault used him as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033203/defense-casts-victims-as-manipulative-in-east-bay-prison-sex-abuse-trial-with-more-ahead\">part of a scheme to gain the relief\u003c/a> awarded to other victims, including early release from prison, settlement money, and, in some cases, legal status to remain in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His new trial — which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041857/after-mistrial-in-fci-dublin-abuse-case-new-charges-leave-out-one-of-the-accusers\">excludes one of the alleged victims\u003c/a> from the first trial — is set for August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson and Gacad are scheduled for change of plea hearings on Aug. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She said women who have made similar allegations face similar retaliation, as do those who were part of a class-action lawsuit that led to a landmark consent decree awarding women at Dublin special protections while they are incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">two class-action suits\u003c/a> that have been settled with the BOP, about 300 women who remained incarcerated after the closure and were moved to other federal facilities are supposed to receive special protections including monitoring surrounding their medical and mental health care and in instances when they are placed in solitary housing or report retaliation, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this week, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982014/judge-chooses-top-pick-for-special-master-to-oversee-womens-prison-following-rampant-abuse\">court-appointed “special master”\u003c/a> tasked with tracking prisons’ compliance with those protections found that in April 2025, the first month since the consent decree went into effect, the BOP failed to comply or only partially complied with nearly all of the agreed-upon protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s devastating,” Drysdale said. “This report, although not surprising, was really upsetting to know that nothing’s changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report from special master Wendy Still said that in the monthlong period, there were 13 complaints of sexual abuse and three of physical abuse that, in some cases, warranted no follow-up action from staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen women also reported retaliation by staff because of their status as part of the class-action suit, including during instances when they were placed in solitary housing, removed from specific programs or lacked responses to requests for remedies promised to class members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into staff sexual abuse allegations at two women’s prisons in Chowchilla and Chino, following a series of lawsuits and similar abuses at federal facilities like FCI Dublin, which was closed due to widespread misconduct. \u003ccite>(J. 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Attorneys said that the five women tried to use fabricated stories of abuse by Smith to earn early release and other benefits, like legal immigration status and settlement payouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The woman] was a driving force in this group of inmates,” defense attorney Naomi Chung said during her closing argument at trial. “[Two of the other victims] both consulted with [her] before reporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12035958 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1020x668.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense accused the women of coordinating their stories through a shared civil attorney, Jae Oh. 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"content": "\u003cp>The fate of former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a> correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith is now in the hands of a jury, who will have to decide whether he is guilty of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031584/east-bay-prison-sex-abuse-trial-opens-account-guards-ultimate-control\">sexual abuse\u003c/a> or another “victim” of the prison, as suggested by his defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His case will bring to a close the criminal proceedings stemming from a sprawling investigation into a culture of sexual abuse, cover-up and retaliation at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">now-shuttered East Bay federal prison\u003c/a>, as he is the final former official to face trial. Seven others, including the warden, have been sentenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is charged with 15 counts related to the sexual abuse of five women formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin between 2017 and 2021. During closing arguments on Monday, prosecutors described him as “untouchable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The defendant abused all of these women with impunity,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Paulson said. “He thought that his power, threats and intimidation would insulate him — his buddies would insulate him. Indeed, that’s what the defense is hoping will insulate him today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The defendant wants you to view these women like he did: as objects … as felons … especially because some of them have immigration issues and have filed lawsuits [against him and the prison].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is accused of touching the women’s buttocks and vaginas, forcing them to show their breasts and ordering one woman to have sex with him — allegations uncovered by the FBI probe that ensnared several other prison officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031941\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1404\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3-KQED-1-800x562.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3-KQED-1-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3-KQED-1-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3-KQED-1-1536x1078.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3-KQED-1-1920x1348.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch shows former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, listening as a witness testifies in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, Smith’s defense argued that his case is different, calling him an outlier among those who were charged. Defense attorney Naomi Chung told the jury that the trial lacked context of Smith’s own mistreatment at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chung said that Smith’s time working at Dublin became a “nightmare” after rumors began swirling about an alleged inappropriate relationship between him and a woman incarcerated at the prison in 2016. At the time, he was a correctional counselor, but amid an investigation into the alleged relationship — which the woman testified was untrue — he was demoted from a counselor to a guard, bringing a downgrade in pay and status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chung alleged that Smith was hated by then-Warden Ray Garcia and other management staff since he was a “thorn in their side,” picketing for FCI Dublin’s union and standing up for workers’ rights. The investigation into Smith spanned six years, and he was ultimately given a six-day suspension in May 2021 for the “appearance of an inappropriate relationship.”[aside postID=news_12032044 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1A-KQED-1020x574.jpg']She said that the prosecution’s argument that Smith was powerful had “cracks” in it that “are not small. They’re big enough to drive reasonable doubt right through this entire case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chung said it “goes against common sense” to assume Smith would be “brazenly” assaulting women during periods of intense scrutiny — especially when management had access to real-time camera feeds in the housing units. It makes more sense, she argued, that after Garcia was walked off the prison grounds over the abuse allegations — and a special task force came to Dublin as more officials faced similar allegations — “Smith became a scapegoat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rumors [about Smith’s demotion] had spread like wildfire throughout the whole prison … and his nickname [“Dirty Dick,” according to testimony] … became a weapon,” she told jurors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty pushed back, asking: “What was [Smith] so paranoid after that big six-year investigation? A six-day suspension?” That was not the punishment of a management that hated Smith and was set on retaliating against him, she told the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The defense also sought to cast doubt on the women who testified that they had been abused by Smith, citing discrepancies in the indictment and their testimony and pointing to the fact that many women had the same lawyers and brought forward allegations around the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The timing matters,” Chung said. “None of the accusers came forward until Dublin was in scandal. Because what happens when you put a group of people in a desperate situation and then show them a golden ticket? A ticket that gets you closer to home, a payout, even released. The answer is obvious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, Paidipaty countered that in the years between interviews with lawyers and re-telling their stories, it is not uncommon for victims to forget or become more blurry on some details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t mean they’re liars,” she said. “That means they are trying as hard as they can to remember and give accurate information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the jury left the courtroom to begin deliberations, both the defense and the prosecution asked them to consider the context surrounding this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Context does matter, and the context here is a prison,” Paidipaty said. “They want you to believe that the inmates had the power. The people in the cells. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She said that the prosecution’s argument that Smith was powerful had “cracks” in it that “are not small. They’re big enough to drive reasonable doubt right through this entire case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chung said it “goes against common sense” to assume Smith would be “brazenly” assaulting women during periods of intense scrutiny — especially when management had access to real-time camera feeds in the housing units. It makes more sense, she argued, that after Garcia was walked off the prison grounds over the abuse allegations — and a special task force came to Dublin as more officials faced similar allegations — “Smith became a scapegoat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rumors [about Smith’s demotion] had spread like wildfire throughout the whole prison … and his nickname [“Dirty Dick,” according to testimony] … became a weapon,” she told jurors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty pushed back, asking: “What was [Smith] so paranoid after that big six-year investigation? A six-day suspension?” That was not the punishment of a management that hated Smith and was set on retaliating against him, she told the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The defense also sought to cast doubt on the women who testified that they had been abused by Smith, citing discrepancies in the indictment and their testimony and pointing to the fact that many women had the same lawyers and brought forward allegations around the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The timing matters,” Chung said. “None of the accusers came forward until Dublin was in scandal. Because what happens when you put a group of people in a desperate situation and then show them a golden ticket? A ticket that gets you closer to home, a payout, even released. The answer is obvious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, Paidipaty countered that in the years between interviews with lawyers and re-telling their stories, it is not uncommon for victims to forget or become more blurry on some details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t mean they’re liars,” she said. “That means they are trying as hard as they can to remember and give accurate information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the jury left the courtroom to begin deliberations, both the defense and the prosecution asked them to consider the context surrounding this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Context does matter, and the context here is a prison,” Paidipaty said. “They want you to believe that the inmates had the power. The people in the cells. Who had the keys?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury is set to begin deliberations on Tuesday and could return a verdict this week. If convicted, Smith could face up to a life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The final criminal trial for a former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a> prison official charged with sexual abuse will take more than a weeklong break, as the defense tries to paint a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031584/east-bay-prison-sex-abuse-trial-opens-account-guards-ultimate-control\">positive picture\u003c/a> of former correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, six witnesses testifying in defense of Smith — who faces 15 charges relating to alleged sexual misconduct — described him as “professional” and said that after the prison’s former warden was charged with abuse, they worried that false allegations could be made against officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense’s final witness, Ed Canales, was an inspector at the prison tasked with investigating those abuse allegations. He won’t testify until next Thursday for medical reasons, prompting a pause in the weekslong trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">sexually abusing\u003c/a> five women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin between 2016 and 2021, while he worked as a counselor, and later, a correctional officer. He is one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">eight former officials\u003c/a> who were charged with abuse amid a sprawling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987663/us-representatives-call-for-investigation-into-abrupt-east-bay-prison-shutdown\">federal investigation\u003c/a> into the prison, which revealed a culture of sexual misconduct, retaliation and cover-ups. The other seven have been convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five women who are named in his suit — and a handful of others who were incarcerated around the same time — testified during the first six days of the trial that Smith made sexual comments toward them, forced them to lift up their tops in front of him and penetrated them with his fingers. One woman said he forced her to have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the defense has tried to cast doubt on the veracity of the women’s allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former colleagues and three other formerly incarcerated women who knew him primarily as a counselor, called to court by Smith’s attorneys, described his demeanor as fairly typical — a stark contrast to the casual, underdressed and flirty behavior described by victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12032044 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1A-KQED-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Joanna Sheridan also asked Rachel Reyes, who has worked at FCI Dublin for 17 years as a secretary in the housing units and occasionally covered officers’ shifts, about two of the victims’ “trustworthiness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes testified that one of the women seemed “very dishonest and manipulative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, she described the other, whose disciplinary committee Reyes sat on after an unrelated incident, as disrespectful and said the witness didn’t seem to want to tell the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes also testified that after the prison’s former warden, Ray Garcia, was initially charged with sexually abusing incarcerated women in 2021, she was worried she could be falsely accused of similar crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After “the case with Warden Garcia and other statements, [incarcerated women] were starting to be released and get money,” she said. “That’s when I felt we [the employees] lost control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes told the jury that it felt like “anyone could say anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense also repeatedly questioned two other Dublin officials about whether there was an increase in mail from lawyers soliciting abuse allegations after Garcia’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armando Sandoval, who worked in the mailroom at Dublin, first said that after Garcia was charged, the flow of legal mail “remained constant.” After further questioning, he said that the prison “would receive hundreds of solicitation mail from different law groups trying to solicit cases” around that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Canales takes the stand next week, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers will decide whether the prosecution has grounds for a rebuttal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is not expected to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains graphic language and descriptions of sexual violence.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">Darrell Wayne Smith\u003c/a> had a reputation as a correctional officer at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women incarcerated at the East Bay federal prison said he patrolled housing units wearing a cowboy hat and boots, often leaving his shirts unbuttoned with nothing underneath. When he wasn’t making rounds, they said, he sat back in his chair at the officer’s desk, kicking his feet up and leering at women as they walked by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made passing sexual comments and locked women in cells when they broke the rules, ordering them to flash him to get out or to be awarded special privileges, women testified in federal court in Oakland this week. Whenever new women arrived at the prison, they said they were warned about Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers were known for several things, but he was the officer that walked around with his shirt open, kind of cowboy style, not professional at all,” said one woman, who remembers learning his nickname, “Dirty Dick Smith,” soon after she arrived at Dublin in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He carried himself in a different way than other officers,” she said. “He was always talking to the girls in inappropriate ways or trying to get with all the girls. Kind of flirtatious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard rumors about him,” another woman told the jury. “But I never thought I was going to go through things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of a witness giving testimony under questioning by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty in the trial of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They are among eight women who have testified that Smith’s harassment went much further. Although they used their first names in court, KQED does not identify survivors of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is charged with 15 counts of sexual abuse and related crimes against five women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin between 2016 and 2021. The low-security women’s prison was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">shut down last year\u003c/a> after a sprawling federal investigation revealed a culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight officers were charged in the fallout. Smith, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031584/east-bay-prison-sex-abuse-trial-opens-account-guards-ultimate-control\">trial began Monday\u003c/a> and will continue next week, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">last to be tried\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three women named in Smith’s case have testified against him so far. This is what they say they endured under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘He thought it was a joke’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first woman who took the stand on Monday, wrapped in an oversized black coat with her long dark hair pulled tightly into a bun, recalled meeting Smith while picking up her mail. She had just arrived at FCI Dublin and said he tried to connect with her about her Native heritage and told her about his home in Florida and his marital problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she said, he began to invite her to the small desk and office that formed the officer’s station at the center of the housing unit, where he would ask her invasive questions about her sexuality and told her he liked small breasts. One day, he called her over as he was locking up at the end of his shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1920x1258.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith watching as a witness gives testimony against him in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking down at a clipboard in his hands, he asked her quietly what she might need when she was released, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said a job, I said a car,” the woman testified. “He said he’d get one for me if I’d be with him at night,” gesturing toward his groin as he responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said she shook her head and walked away, upset, but Smith’s actions only escalated. He started to comment on her feet when she wore slides to the shower, tried to touch her, and came into her cell when she was alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2020, the woman said, she was beading on her bed when Smith showed up in her doorway. He ordered her to grab a stack of books on top of her white metal storage locker across the cell.[aside postID=news_12031584 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1181905632_qed-1020x680.jpg']“When I reached up, he took off one of my socks and he pointed to my foot. He said, ‘That’s nice,’ and I stood there,” she said. “Then he cupped my butt underneath and in between my legs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next year, the woman said, Smith kissed her, stuck his fingers into her vagina and anus on multiple occasions, and once forced her to touch his penis. She started asking to be transferred to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted a change,” she told attorneys when they questioned why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final time Smith assaulted her, she said, was in the spring of 2021. She was kneeling, facing out to the window at the back of her cell, when he rushed in and stuck his hands down her pants, touching her buttocks, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He laughed and walked away. He thought it was a joke, and I was playing with him,” she testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that day, she said, he came back. She was standing with her back to the closed door, mixing instant coffee into hot water at her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He came in very fast. He had my arm with his arm, and at the same time, he was trying to put his hands down my pants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She swatted and tried to push him off, but Smith backed her against a wall, she said. Pinning her by her wrist, she said, Smith reached into her pants and inserted his finger into her anus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept trying to fight him off of me,” she testified through tears, looking down as Smith sat across the courtroom. “I was scared, and it brought back flashbacks of other times I had been assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Smith left her room, she said, she heard another woman in the hallway ask him what he had been doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘I’m trying to help her get transferred,’” the woman said, wiping her nose with a tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Smith continued to harass her but did not touch her again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, she feared she would be sent to a solitary housing unit or face a retaliatory investigation if she reported him, but she eventually did so in March 2022. Shortly after, she was transferred to a facility in Minnesota. Two weeks ago, she was released to a reentry center, multiple years before her sentence was set to end, after being granted compassionate release because of the abuse she endured at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That was his unit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The second woman who Smith is charged with abusing said her interactions with him started when she was moved to Housing Unit C during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his unit,” she said Tuesday, looking out toward Smith, who sat next to his defense team in a blue button-down shirt. “He bid for the unit and worked doubles. I think he got a lot of attention from that unit, and he liked it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, watching as a witness cries while giving testimony against him on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said Smith started coming by her cell for a few minutes every now and then while she was reading in bed or making food by her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would comment about my body if he thought I looked nice,” she said. “He told me I had the nicest ass he had ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman told Smith that she was dating another woman in the unit, thinking it would get him to stop pursuing her. She said Smith responded by asking if he could watch them have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after she had moved into Housing Unit C, the woman said she went to the officer’s station to confront Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him to leave me alone and said he was causing problems in my relationships,” she told the court. He dismissed her, and she went back upstairs to her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"FCI Dublin Women's Prison in Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a women’s prison in the East Bay, on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even make it to the back of the cell before he was in the room, closing the door behind him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she had just walked past the room’s toilet and was standing in front of the lockers squeezed into the corner opposite her bed when “he told me to take my clothes off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “to lean over the locker. He put his fingers inside me,” she said. “I felt violated. I was in pain because he was rough. It didn’t feel like a sexual thing, it was an ‘I run shit’ thing … ‘This is my house, and I am going to do what I want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith pulled back after that. Sometimes, he would stand in her way, forcing her to brush up against him when she passed, she said, but he left her mostly alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really relieved and hoping that would be the end of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one morning, in the fall or winter of 2020, she said, she was starting the early load on her new job as a laundry orderly for her unit when Smith came into the room behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to bend over, and he again put his fingers in my vagina,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job was one of the few positions that gave women permission to leave their cells during COVID-19 restrictions. Every morning, she would roll out of bed just after 4 a.m. and drag the first load of dirty uniforms down the dark hallway to the laundry room. She said she would be half-asleep as she started the washing machine and stumbled back to her cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, the woman said, Smith followed her into the laundry room again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like, ‘When is this going to end?’” she said. “Before he even did it [the second time], I thought he was going to. I heard his keys coming down the hall, and he just said, ‘Bend over.’ It was almost like a routine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after the two incidents in the laundry room, she wasn’t assaulted by Smith again. She filed a Prison Rape Elimination Act report against him at the end of 2022 and was released from prison in May, 18 months early, through a compassionate release agreement based on her abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt like I couldn’t do anything’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The third of Smith’s victims who testified this week was also transferred to Housing Unit C in the early days of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Welcome to my unit,’” the woman recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started being nice to me, getting close to me, talking to me at the balcony outside my room,” she said. “I heard rumors about him. I never thought I was going to go through things like that, but he made me uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-800x489.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1020x623.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1536x938.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1920x1173.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch shows former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, listen as a witness testifies in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Paulson is questioning her, and District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sits on the bench. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He started calling her over to the officer’s station, where he would tell her about his trips to Tijuana and ask about her family, she said. He told her he was attracted to Hispanic women with long hair, like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she was lying on her bed when she was supposed to line up for a count or have gotten up for the day, she said Smith would come in her room and spank her, saying she needed to “get ready for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began to call her his girlfriend, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said he was crazy and that I didn’t want to be part of it, I was not his girlfriend,” she told the jury. “He said I would come around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith started withholding mail her husband had sent, she said, shaking the physical letters over her head while he motioned for her to lift up her shirt. On multiple occasions, he would pull back her shower curtain and stare.[aside postID=news_12031908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“He would touch me, spank me, rub my back when I was sleeping,” she testified. “He told me to get up and look pretty for [him].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said he told her that if she didn’t cooperate, he would take away her mail or her telephone and commissary privileges. Once, he ripped up a letter of hers in front of her, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in September 2020, he came by her cell in the evening. He told her that if she met him in the laundry room after curfew, he would give her a cellphone to call her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to walk in, and he started touching me,” she said. “I started pushing him away and saying I just wanted to see my kids. He said I needed to earn it. I wasn’t ready for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith assaulted her three times in the laundry room, sticking his fingers into her anus and vagina and exposing his penis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just closed my eyes and just lost it,” she said. “I felt so disgusted, I felt powerless. I wanted to defend myself. I wanted to do something, and I felt like I couldn’t do anything. Who was I going to ask for help, who was I going to tell?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Smith assaulted her was in the winter of 2020, she said. This time, he told her to go to the janitor’s closet, which was down the dark, sterile hallway from the laundry room she had grown accustomed to meeting him in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that she knew “he wanted more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t want to finger me or play with me or just interact with me no more,” she said. “He wanted to hurt me by getting what he wanted, to use me, to have sex with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith waited for her at the entrance to the hallway that led to the closet and followed behind her, walking slowly in his jeans and cowboy boots, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just walked toward me and told me to turn around. I wanted to push him away, but I guess he was tired of me, my actions, my mouth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997597\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Backed into a wall of tall black lockers, she said, she turned around and bent over. He forced her to have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was nothing,” she said quietly in court, pausing as she spoke. “I had no say. I couldn’t defend myself toward somebody who was there to do right for us. Instead of helping, he had done all the wrongs and really hurt me, really damaged me and showed me that I had no way of getting out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after that, Smith moved on to a new “girlfriend” but continued to harass her. She reported his abuse in December 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she remained in Dublin until it was abruptly shuttered last April, when she was transferred to a federal prison in Florida. She was also party to a civil suit that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">settled in December\u003c/a> and has had her sentence shortened by seven years as part of a compassionate release deal. Smith’s defense pointed out that she was undocumented when she was arrested and will likely be granted a U-visa — which is set aside for victims of certain crimes — for aiding the government in Smith’s trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, Smith’s “abuse broke me, it finished me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money, there’s no visa that would change anything. Not even me looking at my kids would change the damage that he cost me,” she said. “It is more painful than anything, and I don’t think I can recover from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers were known for several things, but he was the officer that walked around with his shirt open, kind of cowboy style, not professional at all,” said one woman, who remembers learning his nickname, “Dirty Dick Smith,” soon after she arrived at Dublin in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He carried himself in a different way than other officers,” she said. “He was always talking to the girls in inappropriate ways or trying to get with all the girls. Kind of flirtatious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard rumors about him,” another woman told the jury. “But I never thought I was going to go through things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of a witness giving testimony under questioning by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty in the trial of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They are among eight women who have testified that Smith’s harassment went much further. Although they used their first names in court, KQED does not identify survivors of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is charged with 15 counts of sexual abuse and related crimes against five women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin between 2016 and 2021. The low-security women’s prison was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">shut down last year\u003c/a> after a sprawling federal investigation revealed a culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight officers were charged in the fallout. Smith, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031584/east-bay-prison-sex-abuse-trial-opens-account-guards-ultimate-control\">trial began Monday\u003c/a> and will continue next week, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">last to be tried\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three women named in Smith’s case have testified against him so far. This is what they say they endured under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘He thought it was a joke’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first woman who took the stand on Monday, wrapped in an oversized black coat with her long dark hair pulled tightly into a bun, recalled meeting Smith while picking up her mail. She had just arrived at FCI Dublin and said he tried to connect with her about her Native heritage and told her about his home in Florida and his marital problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she said, he began to invite her to the small desk and office that formed the officer’s station at the center of the housing unit, where he would ask her invasive questions about her sexuality and told her he liked small breasts. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When I reached up, he took off one of my socks and he pointed to my foot. He said, ‘That’s nice,’ and I stood there,” she said. “Then he cupped my butt underneath and in between my legs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next year, the woman said, Smith kissed her, stuck his fingers into her vagina and anus on multiple occasions, and once forced her to touch his penis. She started asking to be transferred to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted a change,” she told attorneys when they questioned why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final time Smith assaulted her, she said, was in the spring of 2021. She was kneeling, facing out to the window at the back of her cell, when he rushed in and stuck his hands down her pants, touching her buttocks, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He laughed and walked away. He thought it was a joke, and I was playing with him,” she testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that day, she said, he came back. She was standing with her back to the closed door, mixing instant coffee into hot water at her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He came in very fast. He had my arm with his arm, and at the same time, he was trying to put his hands down my pants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She swatted and tried to push him off, but Smith backed her against a wall, she said. Pinning her by her wrist, she said, Smith reached into her pants and inserted his finger into her anus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept trying to fight him off of me,” she testified through tears, looking down as Smith sat across the courtroom. “I was scared, and it brought back flashbacks of other times I had been assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Smith left her room, she said, she heard another woman in the hallway ask him what he had been doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘I’m trying to help her get transferred,’” the woman said, wiping her nose with a tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Smith continued to harass her but did not touch her again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, she feared she would be sent to a solitary housing unit or face a retaliatory investigation if she reported him, but she eventually did so in March 2022. Shortly after, she was transferred to a facility in Minnesota. Two weeks ago, she was released to a reentry center, multiple years before her sentence was set to end, after being granted compassionate release because of the abuse she endured at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That was his unit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The second woman who Smith is charged with abusing said her interactions with him started when she was moved to Housing Unit C during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his unit,” she said Tuesday, looking out toward Smith, who sat next to his defense team in a blue button-down shirt. “He bid for the unit and worked doubles. I think he got a lot of attention from that unit, and he liked it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, watching as a witness cries while giving testimony against him on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said Smith started coming by her cell for a few minutes every now and then while she was reading in bed or making food by her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would comment about my body if he thought I looked nice,” she said. “He told me I had the nicest ass he had ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman told Smith that she was dating another woman in the unit, thinking it would get him to stop pursuing her. She said Smith responded by asking if he could watch them have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after she had moved into Housing Unit C, the woman said she went to the officer’s station to confront Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him to leave me alone and said he was causing problems in my relationships,” she told the court. He dismissed her, and she went back upstairs to her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"FCI Dublin Women's Prison in Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a women’s prison in the East Bay, on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even make it to the back of the cell before he was in the room, closing the door behind him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she had just walked past the room’s toilet and was standing in front of the lockers squeezed into the corner opposite her bed when “he told me to take my clothes off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “to lean over the locker. He put his fingers inside me,” she said. “I felt violated. I was in pain because he was rough. It didn’t feel like a sexual thing, it was an ‘I run shit’ thing … ‘This is my house, and I am going to do what I want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith pulled back after that. Sometimes, he would stand in her way, forcing her to brush up against him when she passed, she said, but he left her mostly alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really relieved and hoping that would be the end of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one morning, in the fall or winter of 2020, she said, she was starting the early load on her new job as a laundry orderly for her unit when Smith came into the room behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to bend over, and he again put his fingers in my vagina,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job was one of the few positions that gave women permission to leave their cells during COVID-19 restrictions. Every morning, she would roll out of bed just after 4 a.m. and drag the first load of dirty uniforms down the dark hallway to the laundry room. She said she would be half-asleep as she started the washing machine and stumbled back to her cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, the woman said, Smith followed her into the laundry room again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like, ‘When is this going to end?’” she said. “Before he even did it [the second time], I thought he was going to. I heard his keys coming down the hall, and he just said, ‘Bend over.’ It was almost like a routine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after the two incidents in the laundry room, she wasn’t assaulted by Smith again. She filed a Prison Rape Elimination Act report against him at the end of 2022 and was released from prison in May, 18 months early, through a compassionate release agreement based on her abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt like I couldn’t do anything’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The third of Smith’s victims who testified this week was also transferred to Housing Unit C in the early days of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Welcome to my unit,’” the woman recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started being nice to me, getting close to me, talking to me at the balcony outside my room,” she said. “I heard rumors about him. I never thought I was going to go through things like that, but he made me uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-800x489.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1020x623.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1536x938.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1920x1173.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch shows former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, listen as a witness testifies in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Paulson is questioning her, and District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sits on the bench. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He started calling her over to the officer’s station, where he would tell her about his trips to Tijuana and ask about her family, she said. He told her he was attracted to Hispanic women with long hair, like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she was lying on her bed when she was supposed to line up for a count or have gotten up for the day, she said Smith would come in her room and spank her, saying she needed to “get ready for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began to call her his girlfriend, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said he was crazy and that I didn’t want to be part of it, I was not his girlfriend,” she told the jury. “He said I would come around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith started withholding mail her husband had sent, she said, shaking the physical letters over her head while he motioned for her to lift up her shirt. On multiple occasions, he would pull back her shower curtain and stare.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He would touch me, spank me, rub my back when I was sleeping,” she testified. “He told me to get up and look pretty for [him].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said he told her that if she didn’t cooperate, he would take away her mail or her telephone and commissary privileges. Once, he ripped up a letter of hers in front of her, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in September 2020, he came by her cell in the evening. He told her that if she met him in the laundry room after curfew, he would give her a cellphone to call her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to walk in, and he started touching me,” she said. “I started pushing him away and saying I just wanted to see my kids. He said I needed to earn it. I wasn’t ready for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith assaulted her three times in the laundry room, sticking his fingers into her anus and vagina and exposing his penis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just closed my eyes and just lost it,” she said. “I felt so disgusted, I felt powerless. I wanted to defend myself. I wanted to do something, and I felt like I couldn’t do anything. Who was I going to ask for help, who was I going to tell?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Smith assaulted her was in the winter of 2020, she said. This time, he told her to go to the janitor’s closet, which was down the dark, sterile hallway from the laundry room she had grown accustomed to meeting him in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that she knew “he wanted more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t want to finger me or play with me or just interact with me no more,” she said. “He wanted to hurt me by getting what he wanted, to use me, to have sex with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith waited for her at the entrance to the hallway that led to the closet and followed behind her, walking slowly in his jeans and cowboy boots, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just walked toward me and told me to turn around. I wanted to push him away, but I guess he was tired of me, my actions, my mouth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997597\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Backed into a wall of tall black lockers, she said, she turned around and bent over. He forced her to have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was nothing,” she said quietly in court, pausing as she spoke. “I had no say. I couldn’t defend myself toward somebody who was there to do right for us. Instead of helping, he had done all the wrongs and really hurt me, really damaged me and showed me that I had no way of getting out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after that, Smith moved on to a new “girlfriend” but continued to harass her. She reported his abuse in December 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she remained in Dublin until it was abruptly shuttered last April, when she was transferred to a federal prison in Florida. She was also party to a civil suit that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">settled in December\u003c/a> and has had her sentence shortened by seven years as part of a compassionate release deal. Smith’s defense pointed out that she was undocumented when she was arrested and will likely be granted a U-visa — which is set aside for victims of certain crimes — for aiding the government in Smith’s trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, Smith’s “abuse broke me, it finished me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money, there’s no visa that would change anything. Not even me looking at my kids would change the damage that he cost me,” she said. “It is more painful than anything, and I don’t think I can recover from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">final criminal trial\u003c/a> against a former official at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a> began Monday, prosecutors described a culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-up that they said allowed him to sexually abuse women incarcerated at the now-shuttered East Bay prison for six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983422/another-former-fci-dublin-officer-facing-criminal-charges-is-scheduled-for-trial\">Darrell Wayne Smith\u003c/a> — whose case stemmed from a larger investigation into the prison known by former workers and incarcerated women as\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904298/ap-investigation-dublin-womens-prison-fostered-culture-of-abuse\"> the “rape club”\u003c/a> — threatened, bribed and held power over the heads of five women he is accused of sexually abusing while working as a correctional officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendant Darrell Smith liked power, and he abused that power,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty said during her opening statement. “He abused his power when he fondled [one victim’s] breasts. He abused his power when he pinned her against a wall and shoved his fingers into her anus. … He used his power for many years to sexually abuse many women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is one of eight former correctional officers and high-ranking officials who were criminally charged in the sprawling probe into FCI Dublin. The other seven, including the prison’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934639/ex-warden-of-dublin-womens-prison-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-inmates\">former warden\u003c/a>, have all been sentenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as “Dirty Dick Smith” in court documents, he faces six counts of sexual abuse of a ward, seven counts of abusive sexual contact, one count of aggravated sexual abuse, and one count of deprivation of rights by bestowing cruel and unusual punishment. If convicted, he could face a lifetime sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"FCI Dublin Women's Prison in Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a women’s prison in the East Bay, on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Women who were formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin plan to testify that Smith made sexual comments toward them, forced them to lift up their tops in front of him, penetrated them with his fingers as they slept, and even forced them to have sex with him, Paidipaty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of Smith’s abuse happened in the housing units on that property,” where he was often the only guard, she told the jury. “This is where the women lived, where they slept at night, where they showered, where they did their laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For these units, Smith had ultimate control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense said that the picture of Smith’s time as a correctional officer would be incomplete, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12031367 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240408-FCIDublin-016-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will not see DNA evidence, you will not see any other forensic evidence, physical evidence of a sexual assault,” attorney Joanna Sheridan said in opening statements. “You will not see any surveillance video of Mr. Smith touching an inmate. You might want to pause and think about that, considering that this is a prison, a highly secured facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheridan foreshadowed a strategy of attempting to discredit witness testimony — “These are women who … were there because they committed felony offenses,” she said — and pushed back against the prosecution’s depiction of the power hierarchy of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inmates figure out how to get what they want,” she told jurors. “They learn how to manipulate the system. They learn how to manipulate staff and [Bureau of Prison] management to benefit their interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">more than 100 women\u003c/a> have come forward alleging sexual misconduct by officials at FCI Dublin. Last year, the Federal Bureau of Prisons acknowledged the damage done at the facility with a $116 million settlement split among 103 women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sixty-three civil suits have been filed against the prison and its officials since 2021, and FCI Dublin was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">abruptly closed last April\u003c/a>, a month after an FBI raid and just weeks after a judge appointed the first-ever special master to the Bureau of Prisons to oversee changes at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special master Wendy Still’s report on the institution, unsealed in August, said that women could not easily obtain forms used to lodge complaints and that to “obtain any of the forms necessary to file a remedy at any level, the [woman] had to request the form from staff and justify the need for the form which had a chilling effect” and made women “fearful of retaliation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reporting an officer in prison is risky,” Paidipaty said during her opening statement for the prosecution. “You can face retaliation, and in fact, you’ll hear from some women about the consequences that they’ve faced when they tried to speak up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that in the coming days of the trial, more than a dozen women will likely take the stand to testify about the abuse they faced from Smith or to corroborate the reports of those who were harmed around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within the walls of that prison, those women felt powerless,” she said. “Smith did what he wanted, and when he wanted, for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will not see DNA evidence, you will not see any other forensic evidence, physical evidence of a sexual assault,” attorney Joanna Sheridan said in opening statements. “You will not see any surveillance video of Mr. Smith touching an inmate. You might want to pause and think about that, considering that this is a prison, a highly secured facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheridan foreshadowed a strategy of attempting to discredit witness testimony — “These are women who … were there because they committed felony offenses,” she said — and pushed back against the prosecution’s depiction of the power hierarchy of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inmates figure out how to get what they want,” she told jurors. “They learn how to manipulate the system. They learn how to manipulate staff and [Bureau of Prison] management to benefit their interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">more than 100 women\u003c/a> have come forward alleging sexual misconduct by officials at FCI Dublin. Last year, the Federal Bureau of Prisons acknowledged the damage done at the facility with a $116 million settlement split among 103 women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sixty-three civil suits have been filed against the prison and its officials since 2021, and FCI Dublin was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">abruptly closed last April\u003c/a>, a month after an FBI raid and just weeks after a judge appointed the first-ever special master to the Bureau of Prisons to oversee changes at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special master Wendy Still’s report on the institution, unsealed in August, said that women could not easily obtain forms used to lodge complaints and that to “obtain any of the forms necessary to file a remedy at any level, the [woman] had to request the form from staff and justify the need for the form which had a chilling effect” and made women “fearful of retaliation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reporting an officer in prison is risky,” Paidipaty said during her opening statement for the prosecution. “You can face retaliation, and in fact, you’ll hear from some women about the consequences that they’ve faced when they tried to speak up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that in the coming days of the trial, more than a dozen women will likely take the stand to testify about the abuse they faced from Smith or to corroborate the reports of those who were harmed around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within the walls of that prison, those women felt powerless,” she said. “Smith did what he wanted, and when he wanted, for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While she was incarcerated at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a>, one woman says in court documents, her father died. Her mail from her husband was withheld, her calls to him were cut off, and she fell into a depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, a correctional officer at the East Bay federal prison seemed to offer her a lifeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983422/another-former-fci-dublin-officer-facing-criminal-charges-is-scheduled-for-trial\">Darrell Wayne Smith\u003c/a> told her that if she met him in the prison’s laundry room, he would give her a cellphone so she could have a video visit with her children, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she arrived, she said, he put his hands on her breasts and buttocks. According to court documents, she alleges that when she asked about calling her kids, Smith “told her she had to cooperate with him first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith had blocked her communication, she said, and would come to her cell, force her to walk around and spank her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between September 2020 and January 2021, the woman said, Smith got her alone and subjected her to unwanted sexual acts — first by promising contact with her family, and later by threatening trouble if she didn’t comply or by grabbing her physically. She alleges that he made her “model” lingerie, penetrated her with his fingers and ordered her to have sex with him.[aside postID=news_11983422 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240408-FCIDublin-002-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']After Smith had assaulted her multiple times, the woman told him that she wanted “what was going on between them” to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smith responded that she had no choice, and it would not stop until he wanted it to stop,” according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the eight former FCI Dublin officers charged in a sprawling investigation into the prison’s widespread culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-ups, Smith is the last whose fate is uncertain. His trial on 15 counts of abuse and deprivation of civil rights is set to begin Monday in federal court in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">More than 100 women\u003c/a> have come forward alleging sexual misconduct by correctional officers and high-ranking officials at the low-security women’s prison, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">shuttered last April\u003c/a> after the yearslong investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This trial is something a lot of women have been looking forward to … and are going to be paying attention to and hoping for a just outcome in,” said Jae Oh, who represented three women who made claims against Smith in civil cases, including the one who said she was isolated and abused by him in 2020 and 2021. KQED does not identify victims of sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This “will be sort of the last bookend step in this very long process where we’ve been repeatedly trying to get the truth and accountability for everything that these women have gone through,” Oh told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as “Dirty Dick Clark,” Smith, 55, faces six counts of sexual abuse of a ward, seven counts of abusive sexual contact, one count of aggravated sexual abuse, and one count of deprivation of rights by bestowing cruel and unusual punishment. 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