Gerald Hill v. United States

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff was a federal prisoner serving a 60-month sentence for possession of a gun in furtherance of drug trafficking when he was attacked by a fellow prisoner wielding a metal object of some sort. The attack destroyed the vision in one of the plaintiffs eyes (as a result of which the eye had to be removed) and seriously impaired the vision in the other. It appears that as a result he is blind or nearly so. While still in prison he filed pro se a timely suit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. He contended that he would not have been…