Joe Mosley v. State of Tennessee

OPINION

J. Steven Stafford, P.J., W.S.,

delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Arnold B. Goldin, J., and Kenny Armstrong, J., joined.

■ Plaintiff, a former inmate with the Ten-' nessee Department of Correction, filed suit in the Tennessee Claims Commission against the State of Tennessee for monetary damages. Plaintiff alleged that the State held him in custody longer than the term of his sentence and improperly applied certain sentence-reducing credits. He titled his cause of action as one for “negligent care, custody,'and'control” of which he asserted the Claims Commission had…