Curtis James Langlois v. Dane County Sheriff and Deputies, et al.; Curtis James...

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN CURTIS JAMES LANGLOIS, Plaintiff, ORDER v. Case No. 08-cv-541-slc DANE COUNTY SHERIFF and DEPUTIES, et al.

Defendants.

CURTIS JAMES LANGLOIS, Plaintiff, ORDER v. Case No. 23-cv-417-jdp C.O. WALSH, et al.

Defendants.

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 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