Robert J. Pierson v. William Hartley, Supervisor, Dawn MacMillan Terrell Triggs, in Their Official and Individual Capacities

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2004-12-14

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ROVNER, Circuit Judge. Robert J. Pierson, an inmate of the Indiana State Prison, was assaulted by fellow inmate Jeremy Wilkinson while he slept. Wilkinson beat Pierson with brass locks stuffed in a sock, gashing his head and knees and crushing his left testicle. The attack required surgical removal of Pierson’s damaged testicle and kept him a month in the prison hospital. Pierso…

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