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In a legal complaint that reads like a nightmare scenario from the graphic HBO prison drama ""Oz,"" the ACLU detailed the story of 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.

According to the ACLU complaint, Johnson appeared before the prison's all-white classification committee seven separate times asking to be placed in safe keeping from predatory prisoners. Instead of protecting Johnson, the ACLU complaint charges, the committee members taunted him and called him a ""dirty tramp,"" and one said, ""There's no reason why Black punks can't fight if they don't want to fuck.

Gangs and other prisoners often prey upon prisoners who are gay, as well as those who are young, small, mentally or physically disabled, first-time offenders, shy, perceived as weak, or possessing feminine characteristics, Winter said. In Texas and elsewhere, individuals identified with one or more of these vulnerable characteristics typically qualify for a prison classification known as ""safe keeping"" or ""protective custody.

Johnson informed the prison's staff of his sexual orientation during the intake process. But after leaving the intake unit he was placed in general population. The result, according to the ACLU complaint, was devastating. As a sexual slave, he was repeatedly penetrated anally and forced to perform oral sex at the command of gang members,"" the complaint said.

We are slave we will never see him alive again. We have faith that God will protect him, but the prison must black be held gay for ignoring our pleas for help. Today we are praying for Roderick -- and fighting for him. Independent observers, including a federal judge, have said that some prisoners in Texas are vulnerable and need protection -- which they are not getting.

The result is that individual prisoners who seek protection from their attackers are either not believed, disregarded, or told that there is a lack of evidence to support action by the prison system,"" wrote U. District Judge William Wayne Justice, in a class-action case slave Texas prison conditions that has spanned 30 years.

He also said evidence ""revealed a prison underworld in which rapes, beatings, and servitude are the currency of power. Nationally, the ACLU has received hundreds of complaints about rape and sexual assault of prisoners. The ACLU's National Prison Project recently filed gay lawsuit in Colorado on behalf of a woman who was sexually assaulted while black transported between jails after her arrest.

Other cases are being investigated and the ACLU plans to file additional lawsuits in the near future. Skip navigation. ACLU Affiliate. Media Contact. New York, NY