Ex-officers at federal ladies’s jail in California plead responsible to a number of intercourse abuse counts

SAN FRANCISCO — Two former officers of a federal ladies’s jail in California pleaded responsible Thursday to a number of counts of sexual abuse, the newest to be prosecuted following an Related Press investigation final 12 months leading to jail sentences for the previous warden and chaplain.

Andrew Jones, a former cook dinner supervisor at Federal Correctional Establishment in Dublin, pleaded responsible to 6 felony fees of sexual abuse of three ladies he supervised, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday.

Nakie Nunley, a guard on the jail name heart, pleaded responsible to 4 fees of sexual abuse and 5 lesser felonies of abusive sexual contact of 5 ladies. Each additionally pleaded responsible to creating false statements to the federal government.

The 2 males will enter pleas and be sentenced at later dates.

They’re a minimum of the seventh and eighth former workers charged with abusing inmates after an investigation by The Related Press final 12 months revealed a harrowing tradition of rampant abuse and cover-up on the facility 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of San Francisco.

Ray Garcia, the jail’s former warden, was convicted in December of molesting inmates and forcing them to pose bare of their cells. He was sentenced to serve six years in jail.

All sexual exercise between a jail employee and an inmate is against the law as inmates can not give consent. Correctional workers get pleasure from substantial energy over inmates, controlling each facet of their lives.

In a single instance, Nunley wrote in his plea settlement that in Could 2021 he known as an inmate he supervised into his workplace and advised her he may make her time in jail simpler or tougher. She complied together with his request.