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Texas Sex Slave Sues Prison System for Failure to Protect
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2002, page 20
For more than a year, Roderick Johnson was regularly and brutally raped and sexually abused while confined in a Texas state prison. In April 2002, Johnson filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 where he complained that prison officials not only condoned sexual slavery and widespread gang rape but refused ...
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
New York.
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