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Judge OKs prison abuse settlement, rejecting Trump administration's push to rewrite protections

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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.

The consent decree calls for a court-appointed monitor to keep tabs on the treatment of about 500 former inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin , California .

It also includes pathways to early release and home confinement, and requires the Bureau of Prisons to “issue a formal, public acknowledgement to victims of staff sexual abuse at FCI Dublin ".