Langlois, Curtis v. Walsh et al

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN
CURTIS JAMES LANGLOIS,
Plaintiff,
v.
DANE COUNTY SHERIFF and
DEPUTIES, et al.
Defendants.
ORDER
Case No. 08-cv-541-slc
CURTIS JAMES LANGLOIS,
Plaintiff,
v.
C.O. WALSH, et al.
Defendants.
ORDER
Case No. 23-cv-417-jdp
This court previously entered orders assessing plaintiff initial partial payments of the
$350 filing fee for each of these cases, which plaintiff has paid. 	Plaintiff has been making
monthly installment payments since then. 	Now plaintiff has filed a motion for an order
directing prison officials to pay the remainder of the filing fees from plaintiff’s release account.
Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, an inmate who files a lawsuit in federal court
under the in forma pauperis statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1915, must pay the $350 filing fee, first by
making an initial partial payment under § 1915(b)(1), and then by paying the remainder of
the filing fee in monthly installments under § 1915(b)(2). If a prisoner does not have sufficient
funds in a regular inmate account to make the initial partial payment, then the prisoner may
withdraw funds from a release account. 	However, prison officials will draw funds first from
the prisoner’s regular account and any portion of the initial partial payment remaining from
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the prisoner’s release account. Carter v. Bennett, 399 F. Supp. 2d 936, 937 (W.D. Wis. 2005).
"[N]othing in the fee collection provision of § 1915 can be read as requiring the state to allow
a prisoner to pay off the balance of a federal court filing fee from money carried over several
months in [a] release account." Id. Accordingly, plaintiff’s motion to pay the remainder of the
filing fees from a release account is denied.
ORDER
IT IS ORDERED that plaintiff Curtis James Langlois’s motion for an order directing
prison officials to pay the remainder of the filing fees for these cases from plaintiff’s release
account is DENIED.
Entered this 18th day of February , 2026.
BY THE COURT:
/s/
ANDREW R. WISEMAN
United States Magistrate Judge
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