Washa v. Oregon Department of Corrections

*210HASELTON, J.

Defendant, Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC), appeals from a judgment for damages resulting from violent crimes that a parolee committed while under DOC’s supervision. We agree with defendant that it had not “taken charge” of the parolee within the meaning of section 319 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts (1965). However, we also conclude that the harm plaintiffs suffered was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of defendant’s inadequate supervision of the parolee, and that, in the circumstances presented here, the parolee’s actions were not the sort of supervening criminal…