Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit December 14, 2004, 02-3491 (Robert J. Pierson v. William Hartley, Supervisor, Dawn MacMillan Terrell Triggs, in Their Official and Individual Capacities)

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Robert J. Pierson, an inmate of the Indiana State Prison, was assaulted by fellow inmate Jeremy Wilkinson while he slept. Wilkinson beat Pierson with brass locks stuffed in a sock, gashing his head and knees and crushing his left testicle. The attack required surgical removal of Pierson’s damaged testicle and kept him a month in the prison hospital.