A judge on Tuesday gave final approval to a legal settlement that subjects the federal Bureau of Prisons to independent monitoring and increased transparency in the wake of rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse at a now-shuttered federal women’s prison in California.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland signed off on the agreement after rejecting the Trump administration's last-minute request to alter protections for transgender and non-citizen inmates.
