Overview
- Tory Lanez filed a federal lawsuit in April 2026 seeking $100 million from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Tehachapi warden, and dozens of officers.
- Lanez says a fellow inmate stabbed him 16 times in May 2025 with a homemade weapon, causing a collapsed lung and facial wounds that required an airlift to a hospital and a later transfer to California Men's Colony.
- The complaint faults officials for housing him with Santino Casio, who is serving a life sentence for murder and attempted murder and has prior convictions for weapon offenses.
- It also alleges officers responded too slowly during the assault and did not use tools like flash grenades or smoke bombs, and there is no public record of charges against Casio for the attack.
- Lanez claims staff seized his notebooks with unpublished lyrics while he was hospitalized and refused to return them, and a CDCR spokesperson said the agency does not comment on pending litigation.