Roderick Johnson is finally getting his day in court. His suit against Texas prison authorities, brought by the ACLU, begins Monday.

After enduring 18 months in a Texas prison where gangs bought and sold him as a sexual slave, Roderick Johnson will appear in federal district court Monday for the first day of his civil trial against the prison officials who failed to protect him, the American Civil Liberties Union announced today.

"Roderick Johnson was brutally raped by prison gang members," said Margaret Winter, Associate Director of the ACLU's National Prison Project and Johnson's lead attorney. "The devastating horror of the first rape was multiplied many times over the next 18 months because prison officials refused to intervene to protect him."

Johnson was raped by more than 100 men during his 18 months in prison. TalkLeft's prior coverage of the case is here and here.