A federal correctional officer has been convicted of sexually abusing two inmates at a women’s prison where the warden and other employees were charged with similar conduct.
FILE - The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., July 20, 2006. A former federal correctional officer was convicted Monday, June 5, 2023, of sexually abusing two inmates at a women’s prison in California where the warden and other employees were charged with similar conduct. A former federal correctional officer was convicted Monday of sexually abusing two inmates at a women’s prison in California where the warden and other employees were charged with similar conduct.
A jury found the officer, John Russell Bellhouse, guilty on five counts of sexual abuse for incidents involving the two women between 2019 and 2020 at FCI Dublin, about 20 miles east of Oakland.“My clients feel heard,” Jessica Pride, an attorney for the victims, told KTVU-TV. “Regardless of a prisoner’s crime,Prosecutors alleged in court documents that Bellhouse “began to express an interest in a particular female inmate and started calling the inmate his ‘girlfriend’” in 2020.
An Associated Press investigation revealed a culture of abuse and cover-up that had persisted for years at the facility. Since the AP's investigation, the Bureau of Prisons launched new training for prison wardens and created specialized teams aimed at curtailing sexual abuse at the nation’s federal prisons.
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