A jury on Wednesday awarded $240 million to 32 mentally disabled men for what government lawyers say was years of abuse by a Texas company that arranged for them to work at an Iowa turkey-processing plant and oversaw their care, work and lodging. The award by a federal jury in Davenport was the largest in the 48-year history of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which sued Henry’s Turkey Service. The jury determined that the now-defunct Goldthwaite, Tex., company had acted with “malice or reckless indifference” to the workers’ civil rights, and it awarded each of the men $7.5 million. They had worked under Henry’s oversight at the plant, run by West Liberty Foods, since the 1970s, but never received a raise from the $65 per month that Henry’s paid them after deducting what it said were the costs of room and board. Social workers testified that the men described a life of constant abuse by their handlers. The defunct company is not expected to be able to pay anywhere near the full amount of damages. West Liberty Foods is not accused of wrongdoing.