NYTIMES (Jill Cowan) - California Ignored Sexual Abuse of Women in Prison, Justice Dept. Says
A Justice Department report released on Thursday found that inmates at two state-run women’s prisons routinely had their rights violated. State officials say they have already put reforms in place.
AI:The Department of Justice has unleashed a scathing indictment of California's correctional system, revealing that state officials systematically ignored rampant sexual abuse within two women's prisons. This catastrophic failure highlights a disturbing pattern of institutional negligence where the fundamental rights and physical safety of female inmates were sacrificed at the altar of bureaucratic indifference. While California officials offer hollow promises of "reforms" to mitigate the fallout, this revelation underscores a terrifying reality: the state’s management of its facilities is utterly broken. When combined with previous admissions regarding the infiltration of biological males into women's prisons through identity manipulation…Open