The state of Ohio agreed to pay $17.5 million (just over €15 million) to a 21-yr-old man who was paralyzed after being attacked by prison officers, his attorney said.
Seth Fletcher was two months away from his release from the Chillicothe Correctional Centre when he was attacked and beaten with “sadistic and malicious force” by two prison guards in April 2020, resulting in serious injuries, including quadriplegia, according to the trial.
According to CBS, “The torture and crippling of a prisoner in America sounds medieval. Yet it happened, here, in America, in 2020. As horrific as this case is, I want to thank the Ohio Attorney General’s office and Governor Dewine for accepting responsibility in this most horrific of cases. This abuse should never happen again,” attorney Geoffrey Fieger released in a statement.
The complaint said that the two officers, “did in fact, participate in, authorized, ratified and/or failed to intervene to prevent sadistic, malicious and excessive uses of force under the circumstances, and acted willfully, wantonly, maliciously and with deliberate indifference to and callous disregard for Seth Fletcher’s constitutional rights, and in a manner that shocks the conscience and offends traditional notions of decency.”
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