MEDIA - An SCI Chester correctional facility inmate brought civil charges against many defendants after he says he was attacked by another inmate's dog.
According to the suit filed in March in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, plaintiff Todd Calhoun of York was an inmate at the facility in April 2019.
For reasons not described in the documents, the correctional facility allowed an inmate to have or care for a dog that was provided by defendant Wags Rescue. The dog was at the facility with an unidentified Wags Rescue dog handler on April 18, when it allegedly lashed out at the plaintiff on the basketball courts and bit him.
SCI Chester, Wags Rescue, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and the unidentified dog handlers are charged with third-party liability for allowing a presumably vicious dog that the defendants knew or should have known would attack other inmates to be placed in a large group of people.
Calhoun is represented by Clearfield and Kofsky, and demands judgement for his injuries and medical expenses.