Wallace v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division

OPINION

FRANK C. PRICE, Justice (Assigned).

Roscoe Wallace, the appellant, appeals from the dismissal of a suit brought under the Texas Tort Claims Act against appel-lees, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division (TDCJ) and Gregg Irving. We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

This lawsuit arises out of an incident that allegedly occurred on April 19, 1996, when Wallace, an inmate of the TDCJ, injured his hand while operating a printer/slotter machine in the box factory at the prison. Irving was the plant manager of the box factory. According to Wallace, he was forced…