FCI Dublin Strip-Search and Sexual-Abuse Litigation
Federal Bureau of Prisons · Federal prison incarceration and correctional services · Settlement Reached
About this case
Eight women filed a class-action lawsuit in August 2023 against Federal Correctional Institution Dublin and its staff, alleging sexual abuse, harassment, and invasive strip searches of incarcerated women. The matter reached a settlement in 2025, when a federal judge approved a consent decree providing protections and court oversight across more than a dozen federal women's prisons; the Bureau of Prisons also stated that $117 million was paid to 103 current or former inmates.
Case overview
- Defendant company
- Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Product or service
- Federal prison incarceration and correctional services
- Court case number
- 4:23-cv-04155-YGR
- Case status
- Settlement Reached
- Lawsuit type
- Other
- Reported harm
- Privacy Security
Participation information
Settlement Claim
The class consists of women connected with FCI Dublin who were affected by the alleged systemic abuse, sexual assault, retaliation, and related unconstitutional conditions addressed in the class action and consent decree.
- Type
- Settlement Claim
- Payout
- Non-cash injunctive relief rather than a consumer claims fund: the consent decree provides for court oversight and monitoring, reporting and transparency requirements, protections against abuse and retaliation, improved access to counsel and medical and mental-health care, and related reforms for women affected by conditions at FCI Dublin. The separate approximately $116 million monetary resolution for 103 survivors was not this class-action consent-decree settlement.
- Reported proof requirement
- Unclear