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Michael Balsamo | AP

At federal women’s prison in California, a toxic culture of sexual abuse, cover-ups

The Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif. | Ben Margot / AP

Inside one of the only federal women’s prisons in the United States, inmates say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden and that they often were threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.

Prisoners and workers at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif., have a name for what’s gone on there: “The rape club.”

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