Paralyzed inmate Timothy E. Helms says correctional officers beat him with batons and slammed his head into a concrete wall at a maximum security prison in Taylorsville on August, 3, 2008.
Separate reviews by the state Department of Correction and the State Bureau of Investigation have failed to determine how Helms received his injuries, which included two skull fractures and bruises on his torso an emergency room doctor later said were consistent with welts left by strikes from a billy club.
Helms suffered extensive bleeding in the parts of his brain that control memory, muscular coordination and speech. His words are slurred and often difficult to understand.
