More than 600 inmates will see a trial on their claims that federal employees abused them and maintained a system to prevent people reporting mistreatment within the walls of FCI Dublin.
By Natalie Hanson
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — The federal Bureau of Prisons faces a 2025 trial on claims that it knew of and maintained a system allowing officers at a San Francisco Bay Area prison to abuse and mistreat inmates.
In the first public court hearing since the feds abruptly shut down FCI Dublin last month, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers set a trial date of June 23, 2025.
Despite demands from the feds for nine months to get through discovery, Rogers ordered the parties to finish written discovery requests by Oct. 31.
For months, Rogers heard testimony from incarcerated women who brought a class action this past August challenging the government’s handling of multiple individual lawsuits claiming decades of sexual abuse at the prison. They say the feds enabled a pattern of rampant sexual abuse of incarcerated people with inadequate policies to detect and prevent mistreatment.
Rogers on Wednesday said the case is unique and needs an aggressive timeline toward a trial.
