''Prison officials knew that gangs made Roderick Johnson their sex slave and did nothing to help him,'' said Margaret Winter, Associate Director of the ACLU's National Prison Project. In a legal complaint that reads like a nightmare scenario from the graphic HBO prison drama ''Oz,'' the ACLU detailed the story of 33-year-old Navy veteran Roderick Johnson of Marshall, Texas, who for the last 18 months has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every day.
Roderick Johnson, a Navy veteran serving time for a non-violent crime, has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every day. WASHINGTON-In a case that highlights prison systems' failure to protect vulnerable prisoners - and the role bias plays in who gets protected - the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit against Texas prison officials who permitted a gay African American man to be repeatedly raped and sold as a sexual slave for $5.
