Cox v. State

PARMER, Judge.

Claimant 1 appeals from the order of the Tennessee Claims Commission dismissing her claim against the State of Tennessee.

The facts are largely undisputed. In November 1983 the Memphis Community Service Center (hereinafter “Work Release Center”) sent a group of inmates, including Kent Ousley, to a work release assignment at the City Roofing Company on Raines Road in Memphis, Tennessee. Although the group of inmates included both violent and nonviolent criminals, prior to November 1983 Ousley had never been charged with or convicted of a violent crime.

A Work Release Center van…