Rivera v. State

This is a claim brought by Gilbert Rivera, a resident of Stateville Correctional Center, for the theft of a chain and medallion from his locked room in the honor dormitory on June 25,1983.

Respondent filed a detailed departmental report from which it can be concluded that an officer on duty in the dormitory control center, where keys to the inmates’ rooms were kept, wrongfully permitted three inmates to enter the control center, one of whom took the key to Claimant’s room, entered it and stole the chain and medallion.

One Lt. E. Lyles, who entered the control center and found the inmates there…