Tentative settlement reached in class action suit by inmates of notorious women’s prison

A day after it was announced that the federal women’s prison in Dublin would be permanently shuttered, attorneys for former inmates at the facility said they have reached a tentative settlement with the federal Bureau of Prisons that includes public acknowledgement of staff sexual abuse at the facility.

The settlement’s proposed consent decree would be enforced at more than a dozen federal women’s prisons where nearly 500 former FCI Dublin inmates are now housed for the next two years, attorneys said Friday.