Earlier this month, two victims of a prison assault at the hands of a white supremacist prisoner filed a federal lawsuit. The two victims claim the prison staff at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, laughed as they watched a video of the attack. Furthermore, the officers overseeing the facility allegedly said, "Just let them die," as they begged for medical attention.

Shamieke Pugh and Maurice Lee are both seeking $75,000 for what they said was "callous indifference" by the prison staff. In a video that went viral earlier this month, Pugh, Lee and two other Black incarcerated men are seen handcuffed to a table while another prisoner, Greg Reinke, pulled out an eight-inch knife and stabbed each of them multiple times.

The attack, which took place in June 2017, ended only when one of the four men got out of his handcuffs and stopped Reinke. Reinke is serving a life sentence for murder but was given another 54 years for the attack. He also attacked a correctional officer recently and was given an additional 32 years behind bars.

While the district prosecutor and prison officials have denied that there was any collusion between Reinke, a member of the prison's Aryan Brotherhood, and guards, Pugh and Lee both question how Reinke was able to get an 8-inch knife past officers and a key to his handcuffs.

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In the lawsuit, they say guards either gave Reinke a key or should have discovered a key on him as he was being strip-searched. According to the federal suit, the guards stood behind another gate and "laughed as Mr. Pugh, Mr. Lee and the other inmates were stabbed."

The guards only came to help after one of the Black inmates got loose and attacked Reinke. They pepper-sprayed the Black inmate and helped Reinke up. Guards waited 10 minutes before calling health officials and nurses, even as the four men bled profusely from dozens of stab wounds.

The prison's warden, Ronald Erdos, was named in the suit along with other officers and nurses. The federal lawsuit lists 11 charges of civil rights violations and questions why Reinke was allowed to move around freely despite his long history of violence in prison.

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