Eight more inmates have filed lawsuits alleging they were raped and abused inside the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, where former guard Greg Rodriguez is suspected of attacking at least 22 inmates and now faces 96 criminal counts that include rape, sodomy, sexual battery and rape threatening to use authority.
The latest lawsuits, filed this month in federal court in Fresno, accuse Rodriguez and other staffers of physically and sexually abusing inmates, and allege that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials failed to heed warnings about the abuse dating as far back as 2014.
“CDCR and the state of California failed to take any action against Rodriguez even though correctional officers were submitting written complaints regarding staff sexual misconduct committed by Rodriguez in 2014,” says one lawsuit filed on behalf of a Sacramento woman who alleges she was raped in 2022 by Rodriguez inside a hearing room.
