While rumors continue to swirl that the East Bay’s shuttered Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin could be turned into a migrant detention facility, numerous officers are embroiled in a messy eviction from homes they own on the property.
The former Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin (FCI Dublin) was shut down out of the blue in April 2024 after a laundry list of sexual abuse scandals by guards, the warden, and even the chapain at the women’s prison. Some 600 women prisoners were moved elsewhere in a chaotic process after that closure, and then when Trump came back to power, there have been rumors that the shuttered facility could become a migrant detention center for all the ICE detainees the administration is trying to round up.
But not much has been happening at the facility lately. A Bay Area News Group report from this week says there have been “sightings of plumbers and other crews showing up at the Dublin complex within the past few weeks.” And a Monday KTVU report adds that “Last week, incarcerated men at another prison came to pull weeds from the front lawn.”…