Lisa Fernandez

Women who were transferred from FCI Dublin to prisons across the country are alleging poor treatment and retaliation by staff and officers in facilities on both coasts. 

The Palestinian American who wrote a viral post over the weekend is a former Berkeley resident who cares about Middle East  peace, and who is also a quick-witted writer who openly said that he is "tired of stupid people."

The Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin was emptied out as of Wednesday afternoon. 

Ordering a police dog to bite a person doesn't necessarily constitute excessive force, but siccing a K-9 on a person for a long time does, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled. 

Twenty-four women remained at the shuttered Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin on Saturday, as more women have come forward with their experiences of their treks and new lives at prisons across the country.

Five U.S. senators are demanding that the Bureau of Prisons director provide them with information on how the agency prepared to close the troubled, all-women's prison in Dublin, including written plans to its employees on the "safe and humane release from custody." 

In an interoffice memo sent to employees, Bureau of Prisons Director Colette S. Peters on Wednesday commended her staff for their "tireless efforts in facilitating the successful transition" of women from FCI Dublin.

Dozens of women have shared horrific-sounding bus rides to prisons across the country as the Bureau of Prisons abruptly shut down FCI Dublin last week.

Lawyers representing a class of women incarcerated at the soon-to-close FCI Dublin prison filed an emergency temporary restraining order Friday, urging a judge to temporarily block the transfer of anyone who is left at the troubled women's prison. 

A former San Jose Fire Department captain is facing three counts of trying to perform lewd acts on a 13-year-old girl.