Nilda Palacios had nowhere to turn.
It was June 2016 inside the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF), the state’s largest women’s prison, and her cellmate had become abusive and violent, she recalled in an interview. Officers had refused her request for a room transfer. Her final hope: begging for help from Tony Ormonde, the sergeant who ran the yard.
“I can do the bed move, but you gotta do something for me,” she remembers him responding.
