Tory Lanez has filed a $100 million suit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation due to the stabbing of a state prison guard last year, according to TMZ.
According to the lawsuit, Tory Lanez has sued the state correctional department, its warden, and 50 officers at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, California.
Lanez claims that last May, he was attacked and stabbed 16 times in prison by fellow inmate Santino Casio, leaving him with permanent facial scars and the collapse of both lungs. In the suit, Tory alleges that the prison officials should not have been put in the same cell with Casio, due to the former inmate’s criminal background, and Warden Danny Samuel’s rule-breaking by putting the two prisoners in the same cell.
Tory further claims that no prison officers responded to his cries during the stabbing and demonstrated indifference towards the probable violence.
The claimants ask to be compensated $1 million for each stab wound and another $10 million for facial scarring for a total of $100 million. Moreover, he is seeking to retrieve songbooks containing unpublished lyrics that officers confiscated when he was admitted to the hospital. These songs have a great market value, and the notes addressed to his lawyer were also confiscated.
According to Casio, the prisoner who supposedly attacked Lanez, the former heard rumors that he would be attacked, and prior to the stabbing, saw Lanez armed. Casio stated that he did not intend to kill the latter.
The victim of the stabbing has been relocated to California Men’s Colony prison.
The rapper, known as Tory Lanez, is serving a 10-year prison sentence for the 2020 shooting of rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
