Personal Injury Law

Wisconsin Challenges Award to Prisoner

By Edward Bills

Wisconsin officials are asking a federal judge to throw out nearly $300,000 in damages awarded to a prisoner who claimed he was forced to sleep on a wet and moldy mattress for two months. The state Justice Department argues that the award is excessive and that jurors did not truthfully answer pre-trial questions. In the verdict, jurors found that the prison?s failure to replace the mattress violated the prisoner?s civil rights.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).