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The Guardian - US
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Sam Levin and agencies

US federal women’s prison plagued by rampant staff sexual abuse to close

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The Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, in 2006. Photograph: Ben Margot/AP

The US Bureau of Prisons (BoP) is closing a federal women’s prison in California that has been plagued by rampant staff sexual abuse of incarcerated residents.

Colette Peters, the BoP director, said in a statement to the Associated Press on Monday that Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin was “not meeting expected standards and that the best course of action is to close the facility”.

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