Investigations

A federal judge said former FCI Dublin prison warden Ray Garcia lied on the stand and the only thing he can do on sentencing day to help himself is show some remorse.

Nearly three dozen women at FCI Dublin have either been deported or are facing possible deportation, even though their attorneys say that as sexual assault survivors or witnesses they are eligible for U-visas.

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to stray from normal procedures and send a former Dublin prison warden to 15 years behind bars – more than 10 years more than the sentencing guidelines recommend. 

The EDD is accusing some pandemic-era claimants of fraud and demanding repayment, years after their applications were approved. In some cases, current wages are being garnished to claw back the unemployment money, even before appeals are filed.

A disabled woman incarcerated at the FCI Dublin said her walker was taken away from her a few days after KTVU published a report about her health grievances at the all-women's facility.

Former warden Ray J. Garcia's move for a mistrial, after he was convicted of sexual abuse at FCI Dublin, has no merit, according to prosecutors.

A coalition of advocacy groups and lawyers on Thursday demanded that sexual assault survivors at the all-women's Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin be released.

U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Dublin) is troubled over the horrid living conditions at the Federal Institute at Dublin – already in the public's eye for its rampant sexual abuse cases -- and he is planning to visit the tarnished all-women's prison soon. 

Nearly a dozen incarcerated women at the Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin have filed formal complaints that there is so much goose poop, mold and asbestos at the facility that they have trouble breathing, hearing and some are so grossed out, they can barely eat.

A woman who was formerly incarcerated at the federal prison in Dublin is suing a former correctional officer after she said he he sexually fondled her, once telling her that when he went home at night, "instead of watching porn, he thinks of doing things to her."

Two California lawmakers introduced a bill Monday that would ban the police use of K-9s from being used in apprehensions, arrests and crowd control.

A federal judge reluctantly sentenced a former cook at the all-women's prison in Dublin to nearly two years behind bars, saying the punishment isn't nearly enough for a sex abuse scandal that has reached all the way to Congress.