A federal judge has granted final approval to a legal settlement that mandates independent monitoring and increased transparency for the federal Bureau of Prisons following reports of widespread staff-on-inmate sexual abuse at a now-closed federal women's prison in California.
The settlement, approved by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, includes provisions for a court-appointed monitor to oversee the treatment of approximately 500 former inmates from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, who are now housed in various federal facilities across the country.
