STEPHEN CROCKER, Magistrate Judge
These cases were transferred to this venue from the Northern District of Illinois by orders entered on November 18, 2008 and November 25, 2008. Petitioner, a prisoner confined at the Dane County Jail in Madison, Wisconsin, alleges violations of his constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. I consider petitioner's complaints to include requests for leave to proceed in forma pauperis because he has not paid the $350 fees for filing these cases.
Because petitioner is a prisoner, he is subject to the 1996 Prisoner Litigation Reform Act. This means that before this court may decide whether he can proceed with his complaints in forma pauperis, petitioner will have to make initial partial payments of the $350 filing fees in the amount of $.52 and the remainder of the fees in monthly installments even if his request for leave to proceed is denied.
ORDER
IT IS ORDERED that petitioner is assessed $.52 initial partial payments of the $350 fees for filing these cases. He is to submit a check or money order made payable to the clerk of court on or before December 30, 2008. If, by December 30, 2008, petitioner fails to make the initial partial payments or show cause for his failure to do so, he will be held to have withdrawn these actions voluntarily. In that event, the clerk of court is directed to close these files without prejudice to petitioner's filing his cases at a later date.