Bargas v. State

This is one of several actions pending in the Court of Claims wherein inmates of Illinois penal institutions are seeking compensation for items of personal property allegedly lost from their cells. In each such action the Claimant alleges that he possessed certain items of personal property of minimal extrinsic value which he kept in a cell at a penal institution maintained and operated by Respondent. They further allege that the property was taken from their cells while they were elsewhere in the prison, and that the proximate cause of the loss was the failure of the Respondent to safeguard…