The City of New York has paid a former jail inmate $750,000 after detention center staff failed to address a painful six-day erection which left him impotent. The man said he was treated “worse than a dog” by workers at the facility.

Rodney Cotton, 51, experienced the hardcore symptoms while serving time at the Manhattan Detention Complex.

“It just started hurting,” Cotton told the New York Post. “And I'm like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ It wasn't going down.”

Seeking medical attention for the painful erection – a side-effect of an anti-depressant medication – Cotton asked to be taken to a prison medical clinic. But he received a stiff reply from staff members.

Since Cotton's symptoms began on July 4, 2011, he was told he'd have to wait until after the holiday weekend to see a physician – despite his obvious pain and“difficulty walking.”

RT