Wilson v. State

Claimant, an inmate at the State penitentiary in Pontiac, Illinois, brought this claim seeking compensation for the value of a ring allegedly confiscated during a shakedown and never returned to him or sent to an address provided by him or held for him pending release. Attached to Claimant’s complaint was a copy of a shakedown receipt showing that a ring was confiscated by an officer named Eslinger. A hearing on the matter was held before a commissioner of this Court.

The record establishes that the ring did come into the exclusive possession and control of Respondent and thus a bailment was…