'Rapist prison guards forced female inmates to have threesome with them'

Guards at a scandal-hit prison forced female inmates to have threesomes with them and sunbathe topless, it is claimed.

Staff at Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Wildwood, Florida, are also accused of forcing a woman to perform oral sex.

A third woman – one of 14 former inmates who have now filed a lawsuit – said she was raped by a guard in a remote trailer, who then said: ‘You know they’ve accused me before of rape, but they’re never going to believe you.’

Seven of those who are suing have agreed to be named, with Gina Hernandez the woman who says she was forced into threesomes and to sunbathe topless.

She told the Miami Herald that the facility’s layout, with multiple buildings and wooded paths, makes it easy for abusive guards to take advantage of inmates.

The Herald’s investigation so shocked Florida Senator Marco Rubio that he has now urged the Bureau of Prisons to conduct a review of Coleman

Writing to the Bureau, Rubio said: ‘These allegations are simply abhorrent, and I urge you to take immediate action to ensure such behavior is neither happening, nor tolerated, at FCC Coleman or any other BOP facility.’

Another woman, who did not wish to give her name, said that during her spell at Coleman between 2014 and 2018 sexual abuse by guards was ‘an open secret.’

One officer, who has been named in the lawsuit and has since resigned, would break rules by entering women’s dorms unannounced, it is alleged.

He would then ‘pull up a chair’ and hang around if a woman was getting dressed, it is claimed.

Those women who are suing are seeking compensation and for sweeping reforms to ensure no other female inmates suffer the same kind of abuse they say they endured.

A spokesman for Coleman refused to comment.