FILE - This file photo released April 19, 2013, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted and sentenced to death for carrying out the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. In a lawsuit filed Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, Tsarnaev sued the federal government for $250,000 over what he calls his "unlawful, unreasonable and discriminatory" treatment at the Colorado prison where he is serving a life sentence. (FBI via AP, File)
Boston Marathon Bombing
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has sued the federal government for $250,000 over what he calls his unlawful, unreasonable and discriminatory treatment at the Colorado prison where he is serving a life sentence.
The Boston Herald reports that the now 26-year-old Tsarnaev specifically cites in the lawsuit filed Monday the confiscation of a white baseball cap and bandana that he bought at the prison commissary and a limit of three showers per week. He says in the handwritten suit that his treatment is contributing to his “mental and physical decline.”
An email seeking comment was left Thursday with the federal Bureau of Prisons.
