Boston Marathon Bomber Reportedly Sues For $250K Over Prison Treatment

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has reportedly sued the federal government for $250,000 over what he refers to as "discriminatory" prison treatment.

Tsarnaev, 27, who is serving a life sentence at the supermax Federal Correctional Complex Florence, referred to his treatment as "unlawful, unreasonable and discriminatory" treatment in a handwritten suit filed Monday, the Boston Herald reports. He claims that a white baseball cap and bandana purchased at the prison commissary was confiscated and he has been limited to three showers per week, according to the report.

In the lawsuit, Tsarnaev reportedly claims his treatment at the facility is contributing to his "mental and physical decline."

The lawsuit was assigned to a judge who said it was deficient because it did not include a "certified copy of prisoner's trust fund statement" or a $402 filing fee, CBS Boston reports.

Tsarnaev claims in the lawsuit that the cap and bandana were confiscated by prison guards "because, by wearing it, I was 'disrespecting' the FBI and the victims" of the Boston Marathon bombing, which occurred on April 15, 2013. The 26-year-old was spotted on surveillance wearing a white hat while leaving the scene of the bombings and law enforcement referred to him as "White Hat" during the investigation.

The incident killed three people and injured more than 260 after two pressure cooker bombs were set off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was also a suspect in the bombing, was killed during a shooting with police three days later.

Tsarnaev was convicted and initially sentenced to death, but the death sentence was overturned last July after a three-judge panel ruled that the trial judge "fell short" while screening the jury for potential biases, a decision that has since been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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