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Remember when you’d ask your black sheep Uncle Otis what his cell number was, and he would reply, “B Block, Number 126?” Ask him now, and the answer is more likely to be “555-987-6354.”
When Cornelius Garrison agreed in 2019 to be an undercover informant in a federal fraud investigation, he was to be the prosecution’s key witness. He was indicted in September 2020 on charges related to the fraud scheme. Four days later, someone shot him 10 times at his New Orleans home.
In the first few months of 2024, the disappearance of two young adults rocked the Spirit Lake Tribe in Fort Totten, N.D.
After years of scandal, the Dublin federal women’s prison is a sordid footnote in the Bureau of Prisons’ history. The government settled a lawsuit by former inmates of the prison known as “the Rape Club” for $115 million, the law firm for the inmates reported in a Dec. 18 press release.
Andrea “Andi” High Bear was sentenced to 26 months in federal prison for a drug-related crime in South Dakota. Three months after arriving at Federal Medical Center Carswell, a Bureau of Prisons facility in Fort Worth, the pregnant mother of five contracted COVID-19. She died shortly after her daughter was born.
It’s just a movie. It’s make-believe. These things don’t happen in real life.
For 14 years, a CIA employee got away with sexually abusing passed-out women while serving his country. But Brian Jeffrey Raymond’s luck ran out in his embassy-leased apartment in Mexico City on May 31, 2020, when his last victim screamed for help and neighbors called the local police.
As King Louis XV – the one between the Sun King and the man who brought you the French Revolution – might say, “Après le déluge, les arnaques (after the deluge, the scams).”
Even If the now-closed women’s federal prison in Dublin, Calif., were an anomaly for its record of sexual abuse of female inmates, it would still be a terrible tragedy.
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