Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]
That statement is basically a version of “He’s resigning to spend time with his family/because of health issues”
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The US Bureau of Prisons (BoP) announced on Thursday it was permanently closing a
California women’s prison plagued by staff sexual misconduct scandals, and suspending operations at six other federal institutions.
The shutdowns come as the federal agency is facing intensifying scrutiny surrounding guards’
rampant sexual abuse of incarcerated residents, a
crisis of suicides and preventable deaths across its prisons and reports of
severe medical neglect.
The BoP is permanently shuttering the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin, a low-security facility east of Oakland, which was known internally as the “
rape club” due to the widespread, documented staff assaults of women in custody.
Seven former officers have been criminally
convicted for a range of sexual offenses, including the former
warden, and more than 20 were placed on leave and are under
investigation.
FCI Dublin was temporarily closed in April after a US judge appointed a special master to oversee the embattled facility, and hundreds of incarcerated residents were transferred to institutions across the US.
The BoP said Thursday that it had also “deactivated” prisons and camps in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida, with incarcerated residents transferred elsewhere.
The bureau cited “critical staffing shortage, crumbling infrastructure, and limited budgetary resources”, and said employees would also be transferred, asserting that the bureau was “not downsizing” and that it was “committed to finding positions for every employee who wants to remain with the agency”.
The BoP also said it had been “unable to maintain staffing levels” at Dublin “due to the high cost of living and competition from other area law enforcement agencies”. The announcement did not address the sexual abuse scandals.………
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ng-sexual-abuse-safety?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other