File - The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., Dec. 5, 2022. A former correctional officer at a federal women’s prison in California where inmates say they were subjected to rampant sexual abuse has been arrested and accused of sexually abusing three inmates in his care. The charges were announced Friday by the Justice Department.
File - The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., Dec. 5, 2022. A former correctional officer at a federal women’s prison in California where inmates say they were subjected to rampant sexual abuse has been arrested and accused of sexually abusing three inmates in his care. The charges were announced Friday by the Justice Department.
WASHINGTON — A former correctional officer at a federal women’s prison in California where inmates say they were subjected to rampant sexual abuse has been arrested and accused of abusing three inmates in his care, the Justice Department said Friday. Darrell Wayne Smith, who worked at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, was arrested on Thursday in Florida on a 12-count indictment. He is accused of sexually abusing the three women in their prison cells and in the prison’s laundry room between 2019 and 2021, prosecutors said.An Associated Press investigation
last year revealed a culture of abuse and cover-up that had persisted for years at the prison, about 20 miles east of Oakland. That reporting led to increased scrutiny from Congress and pledges from the federal Bureau of Prisons that it would fix problems and change the culture at the prison.