Former prisoner seeking compensation for leg lost while weeding cemetery

Jerry Baird who says that life has not been easy ever since his foot was severed by a broken weeding machine blade. He and other prisoners had been hired to weed and clean the Bourda Cemetery.

Jerry Baird is living a “ruined life” that he says is being made more complicated by the prison administration, which has failed to compensate him for serious injuries he sustained in December 2014.

Baird’s right foot was severed just below the knee by the blade of a weeding machine,