"One of the things we wanted to do was to be heard and, like you said, we didn't give up," said Griselda Muniz, one of the 500 named plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit filed last year by a nonprofit against the Bureau of Prisons and FCI Dublin.
"We definitely raised our voices, even higher with attorneys behind us and organizations knowing that somebody did want to hear us and did want to help us," Muniz said.
"We are really excited about this historic consent decree that was issued between our class members and the BOP," said Amaris Montes, director of West Coast Litigation and Advocacy. "It is the first of its kind to have some sort of monitoring across over a dozen BOP facilities."
"Today is a day of accountability," said former Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier, who was one of the first lawmakers to visit the prison amid the abuse allegations.
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