Federal jury awards inmate $295,000 over moldy cell mattress. . . Jury: Lousy bedding violated Wisconsin felon's constitutional rights - A Wisconsin man serving time for reckless homicide yesterday was awarded $295,000 by a federal jury that found the inmate's constitutional rights were violated when he was forced to spend two months sleeping on a moldy, waterlogged mattress. Reggie Townsend, 29, scored the six-figure windfall after a U.S. District Court panel decided that he was improperly treated while locked up in late-2004 at the New Lisbon Correctional Institution.
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Moldy Mattress Nets Inmate $295k
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