Torey Lanez Filed A $100 M Lawsuit Against The Prison System

Torey Lanez filed a $100 M lawsuit against the prison system. As we all know by now, Tory was stabbed almost 16 times while serving his 10-year sentence in prison. The lawsuit claims Tory suffered permanent facial scarring and collapsed lungs. Lanez is claiming the prison staff did not protect him from the vicious assault.

Tory Lanez Brutal Prison Stabbing

April 2026 — Rapper Tory Lanez, currently serving a 10-year sentence for the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion. According to Yahoo, he has filed a massive $100 million federal lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).

The legal action follows a violent incident in May 2025 that left the artist, legally known as Daystar Peterson, with life-threatening injuries.

The Incident: 16 Stabs and a Collapsed Lung

According to the lawsuit first reported by The Guardian, Lanez was attacked on May 12, 2025, at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi. A fellow inmate, identified as Santino Casio—who was already serving a life sentence for murder—allegedly used a homemade “shank” to stab Lanez 16 times.

The attack resulted in:

• Wounds to the head, face, torso, and back.

• Two collapsed lungs.

• Permanent scarring.

The rapper had to be airlifted to a hospital and placed on a ventilator to survive the assault.

Allegations of “Deliberate Indifference”

The core of Lanez’s lawsuit rests on the claim that prison officials were “grossly negligent”. In other words,  in their duty to protect him, the system failed.

His legal team argues that housing a high-profile celebrity alongside a violent offender with a known history of manufacturing weapons inside prison created a “foreseeable risk.”

The lawsuit specifically alleges:

• Failure to Protect: Officials “knowingly” placed Lanez in proximity to a dangerous inmate despite his celebrity status, making him a clear target.

• Delayed Response: AP News reports the suit claims correctional officers were slow to intervene and failed to use standard crowd-control measures like flash grenades to stop the attack.

• Theft of Intellectual Property: Lanez also claims that during his transfer to the California Men’s Colony after the stabbing, officials seized notebooks containing unpublished lyrics worth millions of dollars and have refused to return them.

“The attempt of assassination on my life could very easily have been a plot to steal my intellectual property,” Lanez wrote in a grievance letter filed with the court.

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