SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two advocacy groups on Wednesday asked a judge to unseal court records and preserve public access to hearings in the class action lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Prisons over the sexual abuse of incarcerated women at a now-shuttered California prison.
FILE - The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., Monday, March 11, 2024. Two advocacy groups on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, asked a judge to unseal court records and preserve public access to hearings in the class action lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Prisons over sexual abuse of incarcerated women at a now-shuttered California prison.
The legal nonprofit Public Justice and the ACLU of Northern California jointly filed a motion for increased transparency in the case, In addition, the court has “granted numerous motions to seal records in the case and many of the motions themselves are under seal, leaving the public and the press in the dark,” the statement said.Relatives of inmates who died in Wisconsin prison are shocked guards weren’t charged in their casesThe groups argued that previously sealed documents should be made public because concerns over security are irrelevant now that FCI Dublin is closed.
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