A federal judge on Friday chose the former chief probation officer of Alameda County to be a special master over FCI Dublin.
U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers appointed Wendy Still to start the job effective immediately. She allowed Still to have a staff including nurse consultant Jackie Clark, program director Dawn Davison; data analyst Barbara Owen and special assistant Sara Malone. "Ms.
raised in the Order, both in terms of assessment and implementation," the judge wrote in her order. "The warden shall take all steps to ensure such access."Still was proposed by attorneys Kara Janssen and Susan Beaty, who are representing women in a case called California Coalition of Women Prisoners against the Bureau of Prisons.
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