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...By knowing that I would never be able to step outside the confines of prison again in my life, (there is no nature life sentence in the state of Texas, but i have a defacto natural life sentence) I have the mindset that prison is my Home and I have to ajust and just overlook a lot of things that I see and things that are done to inmates, not only by other inmates but by other officers done to, for and against inmates, that are illegal, imoral, and against the very rules that they porport and claim to be enforcing. But while you have a defacto natural life sentence you ask yourself, how many times can you do that? how many times can you turn a blind eye to injustice? how many times can you ignore the irony and hypocracy? how many times can you accept being subjected to injustice and not speak out even though the courts, both civil and criminal as well as good portion of society gives its tacit approval to the mistreatment of prisoners. Look at the Gitmo and Abu Ghraib prisoner scandals, does any one notice that some of those soldiers were state prison officers?? Well all of these thoughts caused me to want to speak out. I started by writing what are called grievances, after figuring out that the grievances were only a state system to identify and harras the person who wrote it, and find a way to denie the claims brough forth there in. So I filed a law suit on the harrasment and retaliation that I was recieving there from my efforts. Yet on March 24, 2005 after I had filed a law suit. A law suit on several prison officers that had stole my wedding band and used sophistry to circumvent the rules acts of malfeasance and misfeasance, to cover up their criminal acts against me, I was told by one of the officers that the federal judges over this region were in with the officers on this unit, so it is a waste of time to even persue that route just accept what was done to you and move on! I couldn't continue to accept things and move on so I filed the law suit, and after i was called to a hearing on it, almost a month later, on the date of March 24, 2005, I was taken out of my cell, beat with night sticks, taunted, and one of the officers crammed a night stick in my anus, while yelling, all "nigger" like it in the ass, you like that, nigger boy?!! I was not given any medical treatment and I was sent back to my cell the officers were laughing and stating I should file a law suit on that. I gathered the names of several witnesses that would testify, hoping that I would at least get transfered while an investigation was launched, so that I could begin some sort of healing process. My mail was being stopped, (and probably still is), I was able to sneek word out to the court handling the law suit against the same officers that sexually assaulted me. and inform the judge that my mail was being blocked to the court, and that I wanted to file the protection order, that was inclosed in the transmittion that I had snuck out to the court and why I had to sneek it out. I explained to the court that I had been sexually assaulted by some of the same officers that were named in the original complaint and that I needed the court to act in order to continue to prosecute my claims and be safe from further assaults. In disbelief the court did absolutely nothing, and informed the officers at the unit that I snuck out a letter to the court, the judge further warned me about sneeking out any other letters to the court. I haven't had any sleep for the past several weeks, I awaken after an hour or so reliving the assault, I can feel it in my sleep as if it is happening all over again. I haven't told family or friends because I have none, after receiving this sentence, wife, kids and family burried me in the grave yard of their minds as if I was dead and had died eight years ago. I doubt if I am even a passing fancy in any of their conversations......Well I really can't explain why and how a federal judge could ignore this and not even report a crime. It seems as if it is a crime itself, in what this judge has done. It there is any one reading this, and can help me receive some justice from what these paracites have done to me, please write to me I would like to here from any one willing to help. I have ran up against a brick wall and a well orginsed oppressive system. You may contact me at the address below. Thank you.. Sincerely...... R.J. Johnson #1005689 Robertson Unit 12071 F.M. 3522 Abilene, TX 79601