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Title: A model of futility: The PLRA and Wisconsin's Inmate Complaint System
Author: Taliaferro, Robert
Pages: 9 pages
Text (O): Robert Taliaferro, 150555 JCI P.O. Box 233 Black River Falls, WI 54615-0233 A.MODEL OF FUTILITY: The PLRA and Wisconsin's Inmate Complaint System by Robert E. Taliaferro, Jr. Introduction In 1996 Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) in response to a few highly publicized--but isolated and over—exaggerated--instances of prisoner abuse of the judicial process. The PLRA was designed as a tool to curb those abuses by making it more diffi- cult for prisoners to seek judicia...
PID: apw:12349215
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T14:47:30.513Z

Title: At this writing, I am now into
Author: Bracey, Larry
Date: 2017-08-29
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): "No person is a criminal, a person is taught to be a criminal" (ala, Mandela) At this writing, I am now into the twenty-eighth year of this incarceration, and I say, this length of time I'm sure it must constitute me as being certified, qualified to say something of major importance and of validity about prison due to my experience. The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said that, "Freedom" could not help but to be Free, which throughout all these years, I have come...
PID: apw:12350917
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T16:50:00.905Z

Title: Bail jumping
Author: Kropp, Tom
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): WCI Tom Kropp [ID] PO Box 351 Waupun, WI 53963 True Story Bail Jumping I knew it was a bad idea to go get K, but I did it anyway. We'd been together two years at that point. When we first hooked up she'd had a lot of desirable qualities. But the longer we were together the more she became addicted to painkillers. When we first met she was on some painkillers due to a car accident that required extensive leg surgery and doctors said she would always likely suffer from chronic pain. B...
PID: apw:12359425
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:24:13.661Z

Title: Battery
Author: Kropp, Tom
Pages: 5 pages
Text (TR_WF): Waupun Correctional Institution Tom Kropp #[ID] P.O. Box 351 Waupun, WI, 53963 Battery True Story I was 35 when these events occurred. At the time I was considered a habitual criminal in Wisconsin. But my criminal history could be quickly summed up in short order. At age 16 while out hunting on my horse in the country two young punks in a car zoomed out in the field like the "Dukes of Hazard." They gunned the gas behind my horse, making Buster run and hurdle a two foot high stone wa...
PID: apw:12359292
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:20:44.308Z

Title: Burglary and perjury
Author: Kropp, Tom
Pages: 9 pages
Text (TR_WF): WCI Tom Kropp PO Box 351 Waupun, WI, 53963 Burglary and Perjury By Tom Kropp Linda entered my life looking like Pat Benatar or Joan Jett in skin tight jeans and leather coat. The weird vibration energy and hormone imbalance that people call love hit us right away. She was also the kind of bad girl I gravitated towards. She'd been a hooker, stripper, and girlfriend of drug dealers. She'd never called the cops on anyone, not even the guys that hit her. In addition I'd done time w...
PID: apw:12360054
Date Uploaded: 2020-12-02T18:36:41.597Z

Title: Deal
Author: Kropp, Tom
Date: 42614
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): Thomas Kropp is a sensei in Kenpo Karate that has won numerous tournament awards. His work has appeared in Muscle and Fitness, Woodworkers Journal, Outdoor Life, Nuthouse, J Journal, and Conceit magazines. Deal By Thomas Bart Kropp Waupun, WI With grim dread I faced the judge. I was looking at twenty years. With grim certainty I could see he wanted to bury me. But when you're a habitual criminal with six prior prison terms, you can't expect good will from judges when you're bac...
PID: apw:12358860
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:09:52.745Z

Title: Donor
Author: Kropp, Tom
Date: 43101
Pages: 1 page
Text (TR_WF): Donor By Thomas Kropp- Campbellsport, WI I saw my friend Todd shot to death by a cop. Todd was 33, bald, hazel eyed with a lot of muscle. He worked construction. He drank a lot and was occasionally arrested for OWI, battery, and disorderly conduct from fistfights. One night we exited the bar and confronted several cops with a warrant for him for disorderly conduct. When he tried talking a cop pasted his face with a punch. Todd dropped the cop with a fist to the face. Another cop grabbed him f...
PID: apw:12358864
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:09:57.221Z

Title: Leaving the streets behind
Author: Kropp, Tom
Date: 2018
Pages: 1 page
Text (TR_WF): Leaving the Streets Behind By Tom Kropp Tom Kropp W4291 Cty Rd F Campbellsport, WI 53010 Most prisoners here in Wisconsin can't leave the streets behind. We average a 70% ratio for returning to prison. I speak unfortunately with the voice of experience. Before our release dates, we have all these good intentions and plans to leave the street life behind. But once we get out there reality pushes us into bad positions. We experience frustration with our parole agents controlling us and low...
PID: apw:12358858
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:09:50.396Z

Title: Prison playwrights
Author: Kropp, Tom
Pages: 1 page
Text (TR_WF): Waupun Correctional Institution Tom Kropp [ID] Po box 351 Waupun, WI 53963 Prison Playwrights By Tom Kropp I discovered a magazine called Writer's Digest while in prison. It intrigued me and I subscribed. That's how I started writing. If someone told me last year that I would write most of a play that would be acted out at the The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and that it would get good reviews, I would have thought it nuts. But it happened. On August 31st, 2019 the play "Ja...
PID: apw:12359208
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:18:45.164Z

Title: Sam's son
Author: Kropp, Tom
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Waupun Correctional Institution Tom Kropp Sam's Son The day Sam's son died was also his last day of freedom. Sam's son Mat was ten year old and resembled his father with good looks and dark hair and eyes. He was an athletic boy in many sports. But his favorite hobby was fishing with his dad. Mat was on the sidewalk near his dad when a car swerved off the street and bulldozed into the boy with bone breaking ballistics. Sam scrambled to his son as he screamed in grief and disbeli...
PID: apw:12359205
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:18:41.209Z

Title: Suicide by cop
Author: Kropp, Tom
Date: 43726
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): WCI Tom Kropp [ID] PO Box 351 Waupun, WI, 53963 Hello, 9-18-19 You already have a signed permission slip from me. About a month ago I sent you a 30 page memoir entitled "Crime & Jurisprudence." Did you get that? [signature] Suicide by Cop By Tom Kropp I was 33 when I tried to commit suicide by cop. Police report enclosed. At the time I stood five foot seven but weighed 225 in muscle from a life long powerlifting hobby along with being a former Kenpo karate instructor that had be...
PID: apw:12359107
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:16:13.412Z

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