BOSTON — Convicted Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has filed a handwritten discrimination lawsuit, seeking $250,000 from the US Government.
Tsarnaev claims he is being unfairly treated at SuperMax prison in Colorado, widely considered the toughest prison in the United States.
Tsarnaev’s lawsuit is focusing, basically on two areas.
In the first, Tsarnaev writes that his bandana and a white baseball cap, which he bought when he first arrived at SuperMax after his conviction, were improperly confiscated from him.
Tsarnaev contends he needs the items to shield himself from the sun.
And he writes that a prison Unit Manager told him the white baseball cap was an insult to the FBI, and to the Marathon Bombing victims.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to the surveillance video, was wearing a white baseball cap when he detonated the second Marathon Bomb.
Tsarnaev also alleges that prison officials are not giving him proper credit for taking enrichment classes behind bars. And the result of that snub is costing him important entitlements, including daily showers.
Right now, Tsarnaev writes, he is allowed a shower only three days a week.
Tsarnaev contends all of this is adding to his mental and physical decline.
Boston Marathon Bombing survivor Marc Fucarile was standing near Dzhokhar’s pressure cooker bomb when it exploded on Boylston Street.
Fucarile lost a leg and was nearly killed.
“I don’t think he should have a hat or a bandana in jail. You’re in jail. You’re a murderer. You killed numerous people, affected hundreds of lives, thousands of lives. He’s lucky he’s getting A shower, never mind three, for what he did, " Fucarile told me.
Boston attorney Peter Elikann told me Tsarnaev’s lawsuit will likely be viewed as trivial by the courts.
“As we all know, jails and prisons are not happy places. And it’s no place anybody would want to be. But, unless you can show that they are truly subjecting you to cruel and unusual punishment, then a lawsuit is probably going to go nowhere,” Elikann predicted.
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