Bay Area reps fight effort to reuse shuttered Dublin prison as immigrant detention facility

by Tony Hicks, Bay City News February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

FILE: The entrance to Federal Correctional Institution Dublin in an undated image. The former women's prison was closed last year following a history of scandals, hazardous conditions and sexual abuse of prisoners, but the facility could get a new lease on life as a federal detainment center for illegal immigrants. (Jesstess87/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA)

Two Bay Area members of Congress — U.S. Reps. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Walnut Creek, and Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose — have sent a letter to the Trump administration opposing possible efforts to reopen Federal Correctional Institution Dublin to house immigrant detainees.

FCI Dublin is within DeSaulnier’s congressional district.

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