Did you know that the California women’s prison, where Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman served time, is being shut down due to a scandal involving a ‘rape club’? The unexpected closure has sent shockwaves through Hollywood and beyond. This scandalous development has left many wondering about the dark underbelly of the prison system and the challenges faced by inmates. As this shocking news unfolds, it raises questions about the safety and security within correctional facilities.
An investigation into the California women’s prison uncovered a shocking scandal. The prison is set to shut down due to allegations of a ‘Rape Club’ involving inmates and staff.
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The exposure of such a scandal had far-reaching implications for the California prison system. It highlighted systemic issues that needed urgent attention and reform to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Some of the inmates at FCI Dublin, located about 21 miles east of Oakland, were already being moved to other prisons on Monday when officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced plans to close the facility.
Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters confirmed to DailyMail.com that that the agency took ‘unprecedented steps and provided a tremendous amount of resources to address culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure – and most critical – employee misconduct.
‘Despite these steps and resources, we have determined that FCI Dublin is not meeting expected standards and that the best course of action is to close the facility,’ Peters said. ‘This decision is being made after ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of those unprecedented steps and additional resources.’
A judge had appointed a special master to oversee reforms at FCI Dublin after a bombshell investigation in 2021 revealed prison staff were having sex with inmates, including former warden Ray Garcia.
Sex between a prisoner worker and inmate is illegal because correctional employees could use their position of power over the wards.
At least eight FCI Dublin employees so far have been charged with abusing inmates since 2021.
Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss – who served three years of her tax evasion and money laundering charges at FCI Dublin from 1997 to 2000 – told DailyMail.com it was common knowledge guards had sexual relationships with prisoners.
Fleiss said she was shocked the prison is closing, but was not surprised the guard-on-inmate sexual abuses continued years after she did her time at Dublin because ‘everyone knew it was happening all the time.’
‘When I was there, there were inmates eating Kentucky Fried Chicken,’ Fleiss told DailyMail.com on Monday. ‘And you knew right away they were f**king the guards because that fried chicken definitely did not come from the prison menu.’
‘I remember one woman told me, ‘Hey, look at this,’ and then she showed me her lingerie as she was eating her KFC.
‘All I said to her was, ‘Oh, that’s nice,’ but what I really though was, ‘None of my girls had to f**k for fried chicken!”
Fleiss said she initially did four months of her time at the facility’s medium security camp, which is known as a ‘club fed’ area where other famous inmates like Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin did their time for their involvement in the college admissions scandal.
But after she threw a chair at a guard, Fleiss said she was sent to the ‘big house’ at Dublin, where she saw moldy carpets and cells that were dilapidating.
During her three years at Dublin, Fleiss said one of her former prison pals started having sex with a prison guard named ‘Hyson’ who was known by all the female inmates as a flirtatious charmer.
That former prison guard – Jon C. Hyson – was eventually charged with 17 counts of sex with inmates and five counts of lying to investigators. He was accused of asking two inmates to perform a sex act with each other and allegedly received oral sex from an inmate.
He also was charged with engaging in 14 sex acts with at least two inmates and lying to Department of Justice investigators.
‘My friend would have sex with Hyson and he brought her treats,’ Fleiss recalled. ‘But when she found out he was having sex with other inmates, she got pissed.’
She recalled a time when she had to share her small prison cell with three other women.
‘I remember asking them if I could use the toilet and if I could get some privacy,’ Fleiss said. ‘And one of them said, ‘You think you’re f**king special? You need to s**t in a Ziploc bag, or you sit on that toilet now and take that s**t.”
Fleiss added, ‘I almost started crying. There were many times I felt in fear for my life because I was there with murderers.’
Fleiss said outside of married prison guards having affairs with inmates, there also was a suicide and a prison escape during her time at Dublin.
‘There was a lot of evil women in there – trust me, they were really, really evil,’ Fleiss told DailyMail.com. ‘I didn’t know all of them, but some of them should never have been let out.’
The scandal and corruption within the California women’s prison system, which once housed infamous celebrities isn’t a joke. The ‘Rape Club’ scandal shed light on deep-rooted issues, leading to a cascade of accountability measures and reform efforts. As the dust settles, the path to justice and trust restoration emerges, urging you to stay vigilant and demand transparency in all corners of authority.