Dublin prison sexual abuse survivors, including victim of prison chaplain, speak about feeling “helpless”

OAKLAND – For months and sometimes years as they suffered sexual abuse from their jailers at the Dublin federal prison, the women inmates kept quiet. Whom could they tell when the warden himself, the man in charge of investigating abuse at the prison, was sexually assaulting three of them? Who would believe that the prison chaplain they had sought out for spiritual guidance was quoting biblical parables to coerce and manipulate them into sex? How could they come forward when their predators held all the power to make life in a prison cell even more unbearable?

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