FCI Dublin Is A Neverending Shop of Horrors – Update for July 18, 2025

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SAME OL’ SAME OL’, DUBLIN SPECIAL MASTER TELLS COURT

The female prisoners who were subject to sexual abuse at FCI Dublin and whose treatment by the BOP is still be monitored by US District Court for the eastern District of California are still complaining of being sexually assaulted, retaliated against and not getting medical care at more than a dozen federal facilities across the country, according to a report filed by Wendy Still, appointed special master by the court to monitor BOP compliance with the lawsuit’s settlement agreement.

Still, the former chief Alameda County probation department officer, is monitoring the former Dublin inmates with a team that includes a doctor, nurse and a prison rape expert.

“The report found significant deficiencies and affirms much of what survivors of BOP already know,” Kara Janssen, an attorney at Rosen, Bien, Galvan and Grunfeld, told KTVU-TV. “That the problems that came to light at FCI Dublin were symptoms of larger, systemic problems throughout BOP.”

The report, the first monthly report to be issued (covering April 2025), chronicled continued sex abuse, lack of medical care, and retaliation being experienced by former Dublin alums spread throughout the BOP system that began even as they were moved from Dublin in an evacuation under the nose of the District Court that made Saigon in April 1975 look orderly.

Still’s authority to assess BOP care came as part of a 2023 class action lawsuit and subsequent consent decree filed on behalf of about 600 incarcerated women at FCI Dublin, where 10 correctional officers have now been charged with sex crimes; seven of them so far have been found guilty, convicted and sentenced to prison themselves.

There are 305 women in the lawsuit class who are still incarcerated in 15 BOP prisons across the country.

The report’s findings include, for example:

Unprofessional and retaliatory behavior has also been reported on the part of medical providers, nurses, and emergency medical technicians. Providers have been reported to tell Class Members they should feel lucky they are getting care since they are illegal aliens or criminals. Shockingly, it is alleged that providers have also told Class Members that they should not expect special care because they are from “Dublin” and that no amount of “whining to lawyers” will get them care more expeditiously. Lastly, it is not clear that front line providers have retained professional independence and as a result, there appear to be instances when facility protocols or directive outweigh clinical professional judgement.

Meanwhile, the hits surrounding the FCI Dublin “rape club” just keep on coming. On June 26, former BOP employees Jeffrey Wilson and Lawrence Gacad became the ninth and tenth FCI Dublin employees to be charged, charged in the sexual abuse scandel that led to Dublin’s closure in 2024.

KTVU, Sex assault, retaliation complaints still persist across U.S. prisons, special master finds in 1st report (July 2, 2025)

Public Monthly Status Report For Rating Period March 31, 2025 – April 30, 2025, California Coalition for Women Prisoners v FBOP Consent Decree, Case No 4:23-cv-04155  (ND Cal, released June 30, 2025)

Thomas L. Root