{"id":2058,"date":"2008-09-23T22:14:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T04:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2012-04-23T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T18:20:59","slug":"would-you-sleep-on-a-wet-mattress-for-59-days-for-295000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/would-you-sleep-on-a-wet-mattress-for-59-days-for-295000\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Sleep on a Wet Mattress for 59 Days for $295,000?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much money would it take for you to agree to sleep on a wet matress for 59 days?\u00a0 The mattress keeps getting wet over the 59 days, so it gets a little moldy and a little smelly. But would you do it for $295,000?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/watch\/?watch=1&amp;date=9\/23\/2008&amp;id=46585\">A Wisconsin prisoner was just awarded $295,000<\/a> by a jury for that exact thing. Reggie Townsend is in prison with a 23-year sentence for killing an 11-year-old girl when firing a gun throughout up a neighborhood one night. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Townsend was involved in a 2004 riot at a Wisconsin prison. Everyone involved was put into segregation. Townsend was forced to sleep on a mattress on a floor next to a shower, which apparently caused the mattress to get wet and eventually moldy. He was in segregation for 59 days.<\/p>\n<p>The prisoner complained about the mattress to no avail. And so a federal jury in Madison awarded Townsend $295,000 in punitive damages against the state.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it was right to force this prisoner to sleep on that nasty mattress. But almost $300,000 for that? That&#8217;s $5,000 for each night he slept on the mattress. Where do I sign up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much money would it take for you to agree to sleep on a wet matress for 59 days?\u00a0 The mattress keeps getting wet over the 59 days, so it gets a little moldy and a little smelly. But would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}