Felon gets in fight over card game in FdL jail

A felon told authorities a noisy card game in jail raised his ire. Terry W. Jackson, an inmate at Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution in Plymouth, was charged Wednesday in intake court with battery by a …
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Thu, January 18th, 2007

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