I’m sure when you’re in jail you have plenty of time to think about things and plenty of time to enjoy yourself by participating in personal activities…but don’t tell that to the guy who had to suffer a six-day erection in solitary confinement.
50-year-old Rodney Cotton from Brooklyn, NY, was awarded $750,000 by the state after his pleas of help were ignored. Rodney suffered permanent damage to his penis as a result of almost a week long erection, thanks to antidepressant Risperdal.
Rodney was given the medication by the prison infirmary while locked up at the Manhattan Detention Complex in 2011 for violating parole. Rodney says he has “loss function” of his manhood.
“They took my manhood! It’s embarrassing. We’re here to create. I can’t perform my duties as a man,” Rodney told the Daily News.
Originally, Rodney filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Department of Corrections and the city Health and Hospitals Corporation.
“If I had the choice between the reward and having my manhood restored, I’d have my manhood restored in a heartbeat,” Rodney said.
Rodney was apparently left in his cell with his erection and only some Tylenol and an ice pack, all through the Independence weekend in 2011.
I wonder what a 50-year-old will now do now that he can’t create.
Via Mirror
