Man Awarded $750,000 In Damages After Prison Ignored His 6-Day Erection


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Rodney Cotton, 50, awarded $750k after prison ignored his 6-day erection

A 50-year-old man won a $750,000 settlement from Manhattan Detention Center officials and doctors after they ignored an erection that lasted longer than some wars.

Prisoner Rodney Cotton was taking the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal, of which the week-long arousal was an unintended side-effect. But when he listened to all those Viagra commercials and sought a doctor, prison officials just gave him an ice-pack and Tylenol. It wasn’t until he saw a third doctor that he received the care he needed.

As in the Creation story, his penis finally rested on the seventh day. But Cotton successfully claimed in court that as a result of the prison’s negligence, he now suffers from permanent damage and “loss of function” in his genitalia.

He claims he suffered “permanent injuries to his penis” and “loss of function” due to the negligence of doctors at the Manhattan Detention Center and correction officers who ignored his pleas for help.



“They took my manhood!” he said. “It’s embarrassing. We’re here to create. I can’t perform my duties as a man.”

Nicholas Paolucci, a spokesman for the city Law Department, confirmed a settlement had been reached.

“Settling the case was in the best interest of the city,” Paolucci told The News.

Cotton initially filed a $10 million lawsuit against the city, the Department of Corrections and the city Health and Hospitals Corporation back in 2012.



“If I had the choice between the reward and having my manhood restored, I’d have my manhood restored in a heartbeat,” said Cotton, who has been incarcerated for 39 of his 50 years, including a prison stint for a 1989 manslaughter case in Brownsville.

His hard times began when he was prescribed the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal to treat a bipolar disorder while doing time in The Tombs for violating parole stemming from a 2008 bust for illegal possessing 68 Vicodin and 100 Xanax pills.

One of the side effects of the medication — which he took with drugs to treat heart disease, asthma, diabetes and other ailments — was a painful, six-day erection.

“It didn’t go down. It hurt and it started pounding,” recalled Cotton.

Despite his moaning and groaning, and “difficulty walking,” correction officers and two doctors at the jail told him his case was not an emergency.

“He made numerous complaints of a priapism condition, for which inadequate care and attention was provided by the infirmary on premises,” the suit charged.

Cotton was forced to wait out the long Independence Day weekend of 2011 in his cell with just an ice pack and Tylenol.

“I had to wear briefs or boxers. I couldn’t wear jeans,” Cotton said. “They had me walking around like that for almost a week.”

It wasn’t until he saw a third jailhouse doctor on July 8, 2011, that he was sent to Bellevue Hospital for emergency surgery, in which a catheter was implanted in his penis.

Following surgery he was sent back to the jail with stitches he was told were self-dissolving. But by Aug. 9, 2011, the stitches became embedded in the skin of his penis and had to be removed by a doctor — without anesthesia, he said.

“He suffered permanent injuries to his penis, including loss of function, mutilation of penis, continued pain and discomfort…,” the suit reads.



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