Jean Jacques, who is serving a 60-year sentence for the June 2015 murder of Casey Chadwick in Norwich, is not doing well in prison.

Jacques last month filed two civil lawsuits claiming he has been sexually harassed and assaulted by corrections staff and deprived of medical treatment.

He has accrued 31 disciplinary reports while under the care of the Department of Correction, dating back to when he served a 16-year stint in connection with another murder case. His most recent infraction was three months ago, for theft, according to Karen Martucci, director of external affairs for the DOC.

The Department of Correction, which declined to comment on the lawsuits, likely will have the 42-year-old Jacques in its custody for the rest of his life. His sentence runs through 2075, at which time he would be 101 years old. He currently is housed at the Cheshire Correctional Institution, according to the Department of Correction Website. He previously had been held at the Corrigan Correctional Institution in Montville and at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, according to the complaints.

Serving as his own attorney, Jacques wrote out his legal complaints on lined, legal-size paper and filled out the cover sheet for a civil summons. As an indigent person represented by public defenders, he likely received a fee waiver to have the papers served by a state marshal.

Named in the lawsuits are The Department of Correction, Warden Antonio Santiago, who was then assigned to Corrigan, the University of Connecticut health center, which provides medical services to inmates, and a correction officer identified only as "Evans."

Jacques claims in the first complaint that in July 2015, less than a month after he was arrested for stabbing Chadwick, 25, and putting her body in a closet at her Spaulding Street apartment, he fell off the top bunk of his cell at Corrigan and hit his head on the floor, which caused him to stop speaking.

He said he was treated roughly in the prison's medical unit, particularly by a nurse "who kept rubbing his ring on my chest trying to get me to talk." He said no tests were performed on his head.

Two days later, on July 13, he said he was still in pain and lying in a hospital bed when a correction officer tried to wake him up for a court appearance. When he didn't respond, he said officers came into his cell yelling and sprayed him with pepper spray in the eyes, ears, mouth and body, causing him to fall and hit his head again. He said the officers pressed his head to the floor and put their knees to his back, stating he was resisting, and took him to court without washing off the pepper spray. During his court appearance in New London that day, Judge Hillary B. Strackbein noted for the record that Jacques had come into court with his eyes closed and was not speaking.

Back at the prison, he said he was again refused medical treatment and placed in segregation for a month, where he claims he was denied showers, toothbrush, toothpaste, toilet paper and writing supplies. He said he developed a mouth infection for which he was denied antibiotics and that he wasn't given his medication for high blood pressure.

The other complaint alleges "Evans" made sexually derogatory comments while strip-searching him after a court appearance. Jacques wrote that he asked to see a lieutenant, and that Evans stated to the lieutenant, "He's the guy who killed that white girl in Norwich." Jacques said the unidentified lieutenant called him a "bitch" and kicked his clothes to the floor.

Jacques said that every time he went to court, the same officer and his co-workers harassed him.

He is seeking more than $50,000 in each of the lawsuits "as relief for the mental and emotional distress as well as the pain and suffering" he experienced, and also "as an effective deterrent to ensure that the defendants will not be allowed to continue this type of illegal conduct toward anyone else in the future."

The state Attorney General's office, which will be defending the state, has until mid-August to respond.

k.florin@theday.com