Two more women have filed lawsuits saying they were sexually assaulted by a prison guard while they were incarcerated in West Virginia.

The most recent lawsuits add more claims against former guards and staff at the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, where the current and former inmates allege the guards sexually abused prisoners and protected one another from formal investigations into their conduct.

EATON — Camden citizen Richard Dougherty filed a complaint against the Preble County Jail during the Preble County Commissioners’ meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 6. Dougherty is claiming officers forcefully stripped and “touched” him after he asked them not to. He is a rape survivor and is claiming this incident at the jail felt like “sexual assault.”

SANTA CRUZ — A civil rights lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court accuses the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s office of a culture of indifference in its handling of inmates at the County Jail.

PIERRE, S.D. — A transgender prisoner at the South Dakota State Penitentiary has filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against South Dakota Department of Corrections officials for violating the prisoner's rights to freedom of expression, to be free of cruel and unusual punishment and to due process and equal protection of the laws.