The Dublin Prison Solidarity Coalition renews its call for presidential clemency for all who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin prison during the decades of prisoner abuse.

What can you do? In the coming months, the Dublin Prison Solidarity Coalition will be circulating links to online petitions of Dublin survivors with pending clemency cases. We urge you to show your support by signing their petitions.

We begin with Ms Roberta Bell (shown with family in the pictures above) a mother and grandmother who is serving a life sentence for a crime committed when she was 20 years old. Ms Bell has been incarcerated for over 30 years.  Please follow this link and sign the family's petition to bring Roberta Bell home.

https://www.change.org/p/life-without-parole-bring-roberta-bell-home

NEWS UPDATE:

Correctional officers Jeffrey Wilson and Lawrence Gacad pleaded guilty on August 7, 2025 to sexually abusing female inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California. FCI Dublin housed approximately 600 low and minimum security women prisoners when it closed suddenly in April 2024, days after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers appointed a Special Master to oversee compliance there. 

Wilson and Gacad are the eighth and ninth correctional officers to have either pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial of sexual abuse of women prisoners at FCI Dublin. The retrial of a tenth officer, Darrell Smith, is scheduled to begin on August 25, 2025 in Oakland, California. The extent and scope of sexual and human rights abuse of prisoners at FCI Dublin is only slowly coming to light as investigations continue.