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TALLAHASSEE Florida prison officials are pushing back against a U.S. Department of Justice report that found reasonable cause to believe “varied and disturbing reports” of sexual abuse, including rape, of female inmates by staff members at the state’s largest women’s correctional facility. The investigation by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and federal prosecutors in Florida also said state officials had documented and been aware of sexual abuse by sergeants, correctional officers and other staff at Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala since at least 2006. The report about alleged misconduct at the women’s prison was released in December. ....
Feds: Iowa facility for people with disabilities conducted human experiments on residents without consent The U.S. Department of Justice started investigating Glenwood Resource Center after there were reports of physical and sexual experimentation. Author: Hollie Schlesselman, Rachel Droze Published: 6:03 PM CST December 22, 2020 Updated: 6:10 PM CST December 22, 2020 GLENWOOD, Iowa Iowa failed to protect some of it s most vulnerable residents, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ said they have reasonable cause to believe that conditions at Glenwood Resource Center violated the Constitution and federal law. “Individuals with disabilities are not human guinea pigs, and like all persons, they should never be subject to bizarre and deviant pseudo-medical ‘experiments’ that injure them, said Eric Dreiband, assistant attorney general for the DOJ s ....
A little more than two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice s Civil Rights Division came to Marion County and interviewed scores of people, wanting to know about the conditions at Lowell Correctional Institution, a state prison for women. Before leaving, they visited the prison and gathered additional information. For several years before the government s investigation, inmates past and present have bitterly complained about their treatment at Lowell, which is off Gainesville Road in northwest Marion. The complaints vary from sexual misconduct to beatings to mistreatment by guards and supervisors. One former inmate, Cheryl Weimar, was reportedly beaten so severely by four guards that she was paralyzed. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement continues to investigate that case. ....