FCI Dublin transfers complain of poor treatment, retaliation at other prisons [Video]

Women who were transferred from FCI Dublin to prisons across the country are alleging poor treatment and retaliation by staff and officers in facilities on both coasts. 

“We have been subject to mental, emotional, and verbal abuse because we were housed at Dublin,” a group of women wrote in a letter they sent to KTVU from Federal Detention Camp in Miami. 

The allegations include being served inferior meals, rude comments and being mocked for filing a PREA, a claim of sexual abuse known legally as the Prison Rape Elimination Act. 

FCI Dublin was ultimately shut down on April 15 after Bureau of Prison Director Colette Peters said she couldn’t turn things around after seven correctional officers were sentenced to prison for sex crimes. An eighth officer is awaiting trial. 

Dozens of women filed PREA allegations, many of which were ultimately found to be the basis of criminal charges against the officers. 

On Tuesday, KTVU forwarded some of …