Ray J Garcia, the retired warden of a prison nicknamed the ‘rape club’, faces lengthy prison stint
Photograph: Jeff Chiu/APPhotograph: Jeff Chiu/APThe retired warden of a federal California prison derisively nicknamedhas been convicted of charges that he sexually abused incarcerated women under his charge.
Authorities ultimately alleged that he would flatter women housed at his prison whom he found attractive, complimenting them and promising them preferential treatment before forcing sex on them or photographing them while they were naked. Prosecutors argued that Garcia knew where surveillance cameras were and weren’t in his lock-up, making it a point to take his targets there before assaulting them between December 2019 and July 2021.
“Who are you going to believe?” Reilly told jurors at the end of trial, according to a reporter with the local news outletBefore the verdict in his case, Garcia was promoted from being the Dublin prison’s assistant warden to the facility’s top administrator in November 2020. That was during the time he was suspected of actively abusing women at the facility, whose lives – from when and what they eat to their bedtime – are almost under complete control of prison officials.
Before his arrest, Garcia trained officials and prisoners on how to report abuse and comply with a federal law aimed at eliminating rape, which has become endemic in US correctional facilities The jury in Garcia’s case spent 14 hours deliberating its verdict, beginning on Tuesday afternoon before delivering it on Thursday.
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