Jury awards $6.7 million to woman alleging repeated rapes by guard in Sheriff David Clarke’s Milwaukee County Jail

A jury awarded $6.7 million to a former female inmate at the Milwaukee County jail who said she was raped at least five times by a correctional officer there.

The woman, who was pregnant at the time, also said she was shackled to her bed while giving birth in violation of her constitutional rights. While the jury said the restraints had “no legitimate non-punitive” purpose, as Fox 6 in Milwaukee reported, it concluded that she had suffered no particular harm from being shackled and awarded no damages for that.