The state disregarded “an obvious and ongoing pattern and practice of sexual abuse of inmates by both male and female guards and employees at WCCC that goes back at least 25 years,” according to the complaint.
The former and current Women's Community Correctional Center inmates were assaulted by guards, and their lawyer alleged the warden failed to protect them.
This is the second federal trial in the civil case dealing with claims by women inmates who say they were assaulted in the control booths of the facility.