A U.S. jury awarded $4.3 million to a Las Vegas man who claimed he was denied adequate dental treatment while serving time at a state prison for reportedly setting off Molotov cocktails near homes in his area, according to multiple news stories.
The Nevada Department of Corrections must pay the settlement to Nicolai Mork, who was released about four years ago from Stewart Conservation Camp in Nevada, to settle his lawsuit in which he claimed he was denied treatment for a yearlong bacterial infection in his mouth. Mork claimed the lack of dental treatment resulted in him losing several teeth, according to the stories.
Mork claimed that when he complained to prison staff about his mouth, he was told to tough it out. Furthermore, he alleged that he wasn’t offered a dentist until about a week before he was released from prison, according to the stories.
Additionally, Mork claimed he experienced a skin condition that he compared to measles, for which he did not receive adequate medical treatment, according to the stories.
It wasn’t until after his release that Mork received what he called adequate medical and dental treatment.
In 2017, Mork, who holds a master’s degree in business from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was arrested after reportedly linking him to at least eight Molotov cocktails that were detonated near homes in the area. No one was injured.
When he was arrested at his Las Vegas home, authorities purportedly recovered nearly 300 pounds of chemicals that could be used to make explosives.
In 2018, Mork accepted a deal, pleading guilty to felony weapons and explosives component charges. He was sentenced to four to 10 years in prison.
