Patton v. State

OPINION

Sommer, C.J.

Claimant asserts that the Department of Corrections (hereinafter “IDOC”) damaged him by “negligently keeping him in confinement * * * from September 9 [sic], 1984, when he [allegedly] should have been released, until November 18, 1985, when he was actually released.” (Complaint, par.1.) Claimant had been separately convicted in Mississippi and Illinois for two unrelated crimes of manslaughter, receiving a 20-year sentence in Mississippi in 1980 and a 5-year sentence in Illinois in 1984. Of the potential combined 25-year prison sentences, he ultimately served a total of 5…