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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
- On October 13, 2014 the Wisconsin Department
- Author
- Marak, Dominic
- Date
- 2014-10-25
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (FT)
- On October 13, 2014 the Wisconsin Department of Corrections announced a new tax on the family and friends of the states prisoners, as wall as the prisoners themselves. The "Canteen Hobby Catalog" program. Because the program is designated as "canteen" the policy mandates that items being sold "will be marked up approximately 10% over cost before any required sales tax is collected" (see DAI policy #309.52.01, highlighted). This mark up is collected by the contr...
- PID
- apw:12347608
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:26:48.119Z
- Title
- Slavery in Wisconsin
- Author
- Marak, Dominic
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (O)
- SLAVERY IN WISCONSIN by Dominic Marak State Senator Lena Taylor plans to reintroduce a change to the Wisconsin Constution, which would ban slavery in the state, when the Wisconsin legislature reconvnenes in January 2017. Slavery is permitted in Wisconsin as a punishment for crime under the Wsiconsin and the United States Constitutions. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel inmates "are not required to work," except "as a penalty for violati...
- PID
- apw:12351625
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T00:31:44.694Z