Tory Lanez Sues California Prison for $100M

0:00It's April 18th. This is Canada News today, driven by AI. Torrey Lance just filed a federal lawsuit against California's prison system, demanding $100 million in damages. The 33-year-old rapper, whose real name is Deistar Peterson, says, officials never should have put him in a cell with the inmate who stabbed him 16 times last year. He got hit in the back, torso, head, and face during what his suit calls, and unprovoked attack with a homemade chank. The stabbing happened May 12th, 2025, at the Tehatcha P prison. Lance suffered a collapsed lung and had to be airlifted to a hospital. His attacker, Santino Casio, is serving life for second-degree murder and attempted murder, plus prior convictions for making and using prison. Weapons Lanez is doing a 10-year sentence after his high profile, 2022 conviction, for shooting Megan D. Stallion in the feet following a party. The lawsuit blasts the decision to house them together, claiming guards knew or should

1:01have known the risk, especially with Lanez's celebrity status, making him a target. It also says the response was too slow, with no quick tactics to stop it. Meanwhile, officials seized his songbooks full of unpublished lyrics worth big money and still won't return them. Lanez got transferred to the California men's colony in San Luis Obispo County, and there's no record of charges against Casio. Prison spokespeople aren't commenting on the pending case, but this suit keeps Lanez's legal battles in the spotlight as he fights from behind bars.