301.07 Cooperation and contracts with federal government.
301.075 Disbursement of funds and facsimile signatures.
301.08 Purchase of care and services.
301.085 Payment of benefits.
301.09 Grants for pilot programs or demonstration projects.
301.095 Council on offender reentry.
301.10 Purchases, bills, audits, payments.
301.105 Telephone company commissions.
301.11 Reports of corrections institutions.
301.12 Cost of care and maintenance, liability; collection and deportation counsel; collections; court actions; recovery.
301.13 Minimum security correctional institutions.
301.132 Honesty testing of sex offenders.
301.135 Electronic monitoring.
301.14 State-local shared correctional facilities.
301.15 Medium security prison.
301.16 Construction or establishment of certain institutions.
301.17 Minimum security corrections institutions.
301.18 Correctional and other institutions; expansion and establishment of facilities.
301.19 Restriction on construction of correctional facilities.
301.20 Training school for delinquent boys.
301.205 Reimbursement to visiting families.
301.21 Contracts for the transfer and confinement of Wisconsin prisoners in other states.
301.235 Structures, facilities and permanent improvements.
301.24 Lands; condemnation, easements, leases, sales, purchases.
301.25 Sewer system at Taycheedah Correctional Institution.
301.26 Community youth and family aids.
301.263 Community intervention program.
301.27 Meal and other charges; vending stands; commissary; and butter and cheese.
301.28 Training of correctional officers.
301.285 In-service and work experience training.
301.286 State identification upon release from prison.
301.287 Correctional officer overtime.
301.29 Bonds of employees; police powers; investigation of complaints.
301.295 Recruitment of department employees.
301.30 Inmate wages, allowances and release payments.
301.31 Wages to prisoners.
301.315 Corrections programs report.
301.32 Property of prisoners, residents and probationers.
301.325 Prisoner reimbursement to the state.
301.328 Judgment for litigation loans to prisoners.
301.33 Freedom of worship; religious ministration.
301.335 Treatment records.
301.35 Law enforcement officer access to department records.
301.36 General supervision and inspection by department.
301.37 County buildings; establishment, approval, inspection.
301.38 Notification of victims and witnesses about prisoner escapes.
301.45 Sex offender registration.
301.46 Access to information concerning sex offenders.
301.47 Sex offender name changes prohibited.
301.48 Global positioning system tracking and residency requirement for certain sex offenders.
301.49 Global positioning system tracking for persons who violate certain orders or injunctions.
301.50 Notification of intent to chaperone sex offenders.
301.001
301.001
Purposes of chapters. The purposes of this chapter and
chs. 302 to
304 are to prevent delinquency and crime by an attack on their causes; to provide a just, humane and efficient program of rehabilitation of offenders; and to coordinate and integrate corrections programs with other social services. In creating the department of corrections,
chs. 301 to
304, the legislature intends that the state continue to avoid sole reliance on incarceration of offenders and continue to develop, support and maintain professional community programs and placements.
301.001 History
History: 1989 a. 31,
107;
1995 a. 27.
301.001 Annotation
The department must follow its own rules. It is not harmless error for an agency to disobey its own procedural regulations. State ex rel. Anderson-El v. Cooke,
2000 WI 40,
234 Wis. 2d 626,
610 N.W.2d 821,
98-0715.
301.01
301.01
Definitions. In this chapter and
chs. 302 to
304:
301.01(1)
(1) "Department" means the department of corrections.
301.01(2)
(2) "Prisoner" means any person who is either arrested, incarcerated, imprisoned, or otherwise detained in excess of 12 hours by any law enforcement agency of this state, except when detention is pursuant to s.
55.06 (11) (a), 2003 stats., or
s. 51.15,
51.20,
51.45 (11) (b), or
55.135 or
ch. 980. "Prisoner" does not include any of the following:
301.01(2)(b)
(b) Any resident of a juvenile correctional facility or a secured residential care center for children and youth.
301.01(2)(d)
(d) Any child participating in the mother-young child care program under
s. 301.049.
301.01(3)
(3) "Secretary" means the secretary of corrections.
301.01(3k)
(3k) "Secured residential care center for children and youth" has the meaning given in
s. 938.02 (15g).
301.01(4)
(4) "State correctional institution" means a state prison under
s. 302.01 or a juvenile correctional facility operated by the department.
301.01(5)
(5) "Type 1 prison" means a state prison under
s. 302.01, but excludes any institution that meets the criteria under
s. 302.01 solely because of its status under
s. 301.048 (4) (b).
301.02
301.02
Institutions governed. The department shall maintain and govern the state correctional institutions.
301.02 History
History: 1989 a. 31.
301.02 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also ch.
DOC 310, Wis. adm. code.
301.025
301.025
Division of juvenile corrections. The division of juvenile corrections shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of the department that relate to juvenile correctional services and institutions, juvenile offender review, aftercare, corrective sanctions, the serious juvenile offender program under
s. 938.538, and youth aids.
301.025 History
History: 1995 a. 27,
77;
2003 a. 33.
301.027
301.027
Treatment program at one or more juvenile correctional facilities. The department shall maintain a cottage-based intensive alcohol and other drug abuse program at one or more juvenile correctional facilities.
301.027 History
History: 1995 a. 27;
1999 a. 9;
2005 a. 344.
301.029
301.029
Contracts requiring prisoner access to personal information. 301.029(2)(a)(a) The department may not enter into any contract or other agreement if, in the performance of the contract or agreement, a prisoner would perform data entry or telemarketing services and have access to an individual's financial transaction card numbers, checking or savings account numbers or social security number.
301.029(2)(b)
(b) The department may not enter into any contract or other agreement if, in the performance of the contract or agreement, a prisoner would perform data entry services or telemarketing services and have access to any information that may serve to identify a minor.
301.029 History
History: 1999 a. 9.
301.03
301.03
General corrections authority. The department shall:
301.03(1)
(1) Supervise, manage, preserve and care for the buildings, grounds and other property pertaining to the state correctional institutions and promote the objectives for which they are established.
301.03(2)
(2) Supervise the custody and discipline of all prisoners and the maintenance of state correctional institutions and the prison industries under
s. 303.01.
301.03(2g)
(2g) Provide alcohol or other drug abuse assessments so that a prisoner can receive such an assessment either during his or her initial assessment and evaluation period in the state prison system or at the prison where he or she is placed after the initial assessment and evaluation period.
301.03(2m)
(2m) Provide alcohol or other drug abuse treatment at each state prison except a Type 2 prison, the correctional institution authorized under
s. 301.046, a minimum security correctional institution authorized under
s. 301.13 or a state-local shared correctional facility established under
s. 301.14.
