CCWP demands release of Dublin survivors from ongoing abuse and retaliation at BOP prisons, as we await sentencing of Wilson and Gacad, the most recent officers to plead guilty to sexual abuse of prisoners at FCI Dublin.
As a result of class action lawsuit over sexual abuse at FCI Dublin, BOP is subject to the terms of a 2-year Consent Decree that mandates protections and access to remedies for class members currently incarcerated at over a dozen facilities around the country. Compliance with the Consent Decree is monitored and reported monthly by a court-appointed Monitor since it went into effect on March 31, 2025.
For the months of April and May 2025, the Monitor reported widespread non-compliance with the Consent Decree, including:
- prison staff generally don’t understand what constitutes sexual abuse
- class members’ reports of ongoing sexual abuse are being ignored
- class members have been subject to disciplinary actions in the immediate wake of reporting staff misconduct
- class members are being placed in SHU (segregated housing unit, today's version of solitary confinement) “pending investigation”, for incidents that upon investigation, did not warrant it to begin with
- despite BOP’s commitment to trauma-informed and gender responsive care, staff behaviors risk triggering and exacerbating class members’ past traumas
CCWP demands release of the class members because BOP is not abiding by the terms of the Consent Decree.
What can you do? Several Dublin survivors are appealing to the President and the Pardon Czar for commutations of their sentences to time served. Today we invite you to read and sign the petition for Dublin survivor Gina Champion-Cain, a minimum security prisoner and known victim of abuse at FCI Dublin. Ms Champion-Cain is serving a sentence for her first and only conviction, a non-violent financial crime in which more than 90% of investor funds have been recovered into a receivership for distribution to victims.
Please follow this link and sign the petition to bring Ms Champion Cain home to her family.
If you haven't already done so, please also sign the petition for Dublin survivor, Ms Roberta bell