Apart from the Hispanic guard in charge of the Dublin prison, in California, four other officers were part of the so-called “rape club” in the prison.
Two of these have declared themselves guilty.
Currently, Ray J. Garcia, 55 years old and former head of the Dublin Federal Correctional Institution, is facing trial on seven counts of conduct of sexual abuse against three prisoners.
In the At the start of the judicial process this Monday, it emerged that García was leading a pattern of abuse under the so-called “rape club” that began with flattery and flirtation, as well as promises of transfers to lower security prisons until the offers resulted in sexual encounters.
The Hispanic pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he faces 21 years in prison, according to the KTLA report.
García retired from the position after that FBI agents (Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)) discovered photos of naked prisoners on their official phone.
It was in the wake of an Associated Press news agency investigation in February into the culture of abuse and cover-up at the prison, located some 55 million east of Oakland, that legislative and criminal authorities began to inquire about the environment in the prison.
At the moment, García faces charges of abusing three inmates between December of 55 and July of
One of the women testified that she began to have romantic feelings for García and that the first sexual encounter was in the bathroom of the prison visiting area.
The convict, whose job in the prison was precisely to clean that area, indicated in Court that the defendant told him that there were several spaces in the area that the surveillance cameras could not capture.