Justice Department to pay nearly $116M to inmates sexually abused at California prison dubbed the 'rape club'

The Justice Department has been ordered to pay almost $116 million to more than 100 women who were abused at a Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, dubbed the “rape club."

"We were sentenced to prison, we were not sentenced to be assaulted and abused," lawsuit plaintiff and former Dublin prisoner Aimee Chavira told The Associated Press.

"I hope this settlement will help survivors, like me, as they begin to heal – but money will not repair the harm that BOP did to us, or free survivors who continue to suffer in prison, or bring back survivors who were deported and separated from their families," she said.