California prisons failed to protect women inmates from staff sexual abuse: DOJ

• Women incarcerated in California were systematically failed by the prison system and were not adequately protected from sexual abuse and harassment by guards, the U.
• The federal investigation, which began during the Biden administration, found that California’s corrections department also failed to give victims a safe way to report sexual abuse and harassment without retaliation.
• The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday blasted California for allegedly failing to protect female prisoners from sexual abuse and harassment.