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 103 women who say they were abused at the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, dubbed the "rape club."

The settlement was approved on Tuesday and will average $1.1 million for each woman who sued the prison for mistreatment and staff-on-inmate sexual abuse.

"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.