US prison warden in California accused of inmate sex abuse
29 September 2021
29 September 2021
The warden of a federal prison in California has been charged with sexually abusing an inmate, authorities said Wednesday. Ray J. Garcia, 54, of Merced, allegedly groped at least one of his female wards, asked at least two inmates to strip naked for him and took and stored photographs of a naked inmate in a cell at the Federal Correctional Institute Dublin in California’s San Francisco Bay area, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office. Garcia also is accused of trying to deter a victim from reporting the abuse by telling her “that he was ‘close friends’ with ...