Judge OKs prison abuse settlement, rejecting Trump administration's push to rewrite protections
A judge on Tuesday gave final approval to a legal settlement that subjects the federal Bureau of Prisons to independent monitoring and increased transparency in the wake of rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse at a now-shuttered federal women’s prison in California.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland signed off on the agreement after rejecting the Trump administration's last-minute request to alter protections for transgender and non-citizen inmates.
The consent decree calls for a court-appointed monitor to keep tabs on the treatment of about 500 former inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, who are now incarcerated at more than a dozen other federal lockups across the U.S.
