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House Dems demand prison rape audit at NorCal women’s …

The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., July 20, 2006. An Associated Press investigation has uncovered a permissive and toxic culture at at FCI Dublin, a Northern California federal prison for women. The prison enabled years of sexual misconduct by predatory employees and cover-ups that kept the accusations out of the public eye. The AP obtained internal Bureau of Prisons documents, statements and recordings from inmates, interviewed current and former prison employees and reviewed thousands of pages of court records. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

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More than 120 federal prisons put on lockdown after 2 …

In this July 6, 2020, photo, a sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Prison workers guarding Jeffrey Epstein to skirt jail …

Jeffrey Epstein appears in a March 28, 2017 photo released by the New York State Sex Offender Registry.

Federal prisons across the U.S., including in California, …

An undated photo on the U.S. Bureau of Prisons website shows the Federal Correctional Institution Mendota in Fresno County.

In 12th execution since July, U.S. puts to death Virginia …

The federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., is seen on Aug. 28, 2020. (Michael Conroy / Associated Press)

U.S. set to execute 1st of 5 inmates before Biden inauguration, …

Man convicted in gruesome killing of Texas teen is 8th …

The federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., is seen on Aug. 28, 2020. (Michael Conroy / Associated Press)

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Feds execute 6th inmate this year, a Georgia killer …

The guard tower flanks the sign at the entrance to the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Dec. 10, 2019. (Michael Conroy / Associated Press)

Lompoc federal prison struggled to contain coronavirus …

The federal prison in Lompoc is seen in an undated photo from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

ACLU sues to free ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen, …

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, arrives at his Park Avenue apartment in New York City on May 21, 2020. (Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty Images)

U.S. puts Iowa meth kingpin to death in 3rd federal …

In this Aug. 18, 2004 file photo, Dustin Honken is led by federal marshals to a waiting car after the second day of jury selection in federal court in Sioux City, Iowa. (Tim Hynds / Sioux City Journal via Associated Press)

More than half of Terminal Island prison inmates …

The exterior of the Federal Correctional Institute on Terminal Island is seen on Feb. 27, 2019, in the Port of Los Angeles. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Source: Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen being released …

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, speaks to the media before departing his Manhattan apartment for prison on May 6, 2019. (Credit: Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

With 69 inmates and 25 staff infected, coronavirus …

The federal prison in Lompoc is seen in an undated photo from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.