"Jurors Deliberating in Prison Rape Suit"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - After hearing nearly four weeks of testimony, jurors began their first full day of deliberations Tuesday in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a gay inmate who says he was repeatedly raped by prison gangs while corrections workers refused to help him.

Six Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees are accused of showing deliberate indifference in failing to protect Roderick Keith Johnson, and of violating the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

The jury started deliberations Monday, spending about two hours on the case, and resumed Tuesday.

Johnson was sold as a sex slave by gangs during his 18 months at the Allred Unit near Wichita Falls, while prison officials never investigated his reports of abuse or moved him to a safer area, his attorneys said Monday in closing arguments.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20051018/D8DAH7AO2.html

[swag]

1. A good organization that's fighting this still massive problem is

at

http://www.spr.org

Throw 'em a buck or two.

Thanks for the post.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Thanks for the link. Very important that it gets passed around