Johnson v. Johnson

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 2004-09-08

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KING, Chief Judge: This is a § 1983 suit brought by a former Texas prisoner against fifteen prison officials. According to the plaintiffs version of events, which is disputed by the defendants, he suffered through a horrific eighteen-month period of incarceration during which the defendant prison officials failed to protect him from prison gangs who repeatedly raped him and bought and sold him as a sexual slave. His complaint…

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