The Brief
- About two dozen former FCI Dublin employees got eviction notices to leave their mobile homes by Labor Day.
- FCI Dublin is closed and the Bureau of Prisons owns the land the mobile home parks are on.
- The employees say it’s not fair they have to leave and want to be paid fair market value for their homes. The BOP says living in the homes is a ‘benefit.’
DUBLIN, Calif. – About two dozen prison correctional officers who used to work at the now-shuttered women’s prison in Dublin are getting evicted from their mobile home park, and if they don’t move out by Labor Day, their homes will be demolished.
Eviction of mobile home dwellers
That’s according to interviews and a federal compalint filed in U.S. District Court describing what the officers and their families are facing in the wake of the abrupt shutdown of FCI Dublin in April 2024.
“I have nowhere to go,” Armando Sandoval, a Bureau of Prison correctional officer who used to work at FCI Dublin, told KTVU. “We feel it’s punishment.”
At issue are the 20 or so mobile homes along Goodfellow Avenue in Dublin sitting on federal land, technically owned by the Department of Justice, blocks away from FCI Dublin.…