Washington, June 2 -- Rep. Zoe Lofgren issued the following press release:
Today, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) along with Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10), Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced that they led a public comment letter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) highlighting significant environmental and safety concerns at FCI Dublin in Dublin, California and voicing strong opposition to the reopening of FCI Dublin to detain noncitizens. This public comment comes after BOP released its Environmental Assessment (EA) of FCI Dublin as part of efforts to permanently deactivate and close the facility.
In the letter, the members wrote, "We support the decision to permanently close FCI Dublin and ...