noon. >> Good afternoon. Gasia Mikaelian I'm Andre Senior. >> Thank you for joining us. We are following breaking news in the East Bay now, FBI agents converging on the federal women's prison in Dublin. As we reported, that facility has been the site of numerous sexual assaults of inmates by prison staff. KTVU crime reporter Henry Lee is live at the prison with the very latest Henry. >> Yeah, a lot of activity here thisC morning at the federal prison in Dublin. And just to make clear, this is next to but separate from Santa Rita Jail in Dublin Alameda County Sheriff's Office. Now, the prison here, the federal prison has been in the newsC in recent years for sexual assaults by guards of inmates, all of whom are female. Let's show you some video from earlier. Now, FBI agents did swarm the prison here in Dublin this morning. Now, the reasons aren't immediately clear, but a source does tell KTVU the warden, associate warden and a captain had been, quote, removed . We have not been able to independently verify that information yet. Now, an FBI spokeswoman did tell KTVU agents conducted, quote, court authorized law enforcement activity at this location. Now, eight prison workers, including the previous warden, Gray Garcia, had been charged byC federal prosecutors with sexual abuseúof female inmates. SevenT& of those have been found guilty and last week, a dozen more women filed sexual abuse and retaliation lawsuits against officers at the prison, bringing the total number of suits to 63. Now, we spoke to Cara Johnson, an attorney representing a number of victims. >> It's being reported that potentially the warden, an associate warden and a captain have been removed. That leads the question of who is left to run the facility. I think this all also goes to show that, you know, whatever criminal allegations may be involved here, whatever prosecute actions that may result, it's not the answer. >> Now that attorney says the troubles here, according to that attorney, are prison or are proof that this prison needs to be changed from the outside. Now, a federal judge, in fact, is considering putting a special master over the prison to minister reforms. Now, it's vers visit by the FBI could very well be a fact finding mission, coul& be seizure of documents. At this stage, they could be conducting an investigation, trying to get information to bring to a federal grand jury. That's possible, not confirmed. And of course, if and when
