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| No charges filed against inmates in prison rape case |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/16/2004 |
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A grand jury returned no indictments against 49 Texas prison inmates accused of raping and selling a former prisoner as an unwilling sex slave. A 70-page investigative report presented two weeks ago persuaded jurors that Roderick Johnson's allegations of prison gang rapes and beatings were unfounded, said Tanya Perry, the Office of the Inspector General investigator who handled the case. "We looked at everything," Perry told the Wichita Falls Times Record News. "We left no stone unturned, and there was nothing to support that this allegation occurred." Johnson, a gay Navy veteran, went to prison for burglary and was paroled. He returned after bouncing a $200 check. The American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a lawsuit on Johnson's behalf, disputed the investigation's findings, alleging that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and officers at the Allred Unit, just northwest of Wichita Falls, did nothing to stop rapes of Johnson. The civil case is pending in federal court. The ACLU lawsuit alleges that Johnson was abused over an 18-month period before he was moved in April 2002 to the Michael Unit of the prison system in East Texas. |
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