Two days after Christmas 2005, Kirk Gunderson hanged himself with a sheet looped around a smoke detector in his solitary confinement cell in the La Crosse County Jail.
He was 17.
He formed letters out of moistened, rolled up toilet paper to spell the message: “I’m sorry 143 family.” The number is slang for “I love you” …
December 12, 2011 Tags: news, WI
Category: Policy, Youth No Comments 
Ali Garland doesn’t consider herself an alcoholic.
Rather, the 38-year-old Menasha woman believes she made a “bad decision” in February when she decided to drink and then drive; a decision that resulted in her getting in an accident and receiving her third drunken driving conviction.
“I know I was wrong,” she said. “I know it was a …
