State Ex Rel. Richards v. Circuit Court for Dane County

Harlan C. Richards is an inmate at Waupun Correctional Institution. He has petitioned the court of appeals for a supervisory writ directing the circuit court to disregard funds in his inmate "release account" when deciding whether to approve his indi-gency affidavit filed under sec. 814.29(1), Stats. Richards had attempted to file, without paying the filing fee, a mandamus action brought under the public records law against Phillip Koenig, the director of the Office of Information Management for the Department of Corrections. After considering the balance in Richards' release account, the…