A federal jury has awarded a man in a Delaware prison $500,000 in punitive damages for a sexual assault committed by a corrections officer in 2014.

Following a two-day trial this week, the jury found Sgt. William Kuschel violated the Eighth Amendment rights of DeShawn Drumgo, represented pro bono by McCarter & English.

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