303.01(11) (11) Displacement.
303.01(11)(a)(a) In this subsection:
303.01(11)(a)1. 1. “Displace an employee" means to lay off an employee in this state as a direct result of work being performed in a state prison or juvenile correctional institution under a prison contract or to permanently transfer an employee in this state to another job that reduces the employee's base pay, excluding overtime, differentials and bonuses, by more than 25 percent as a direct result of work being performed in a state prison or juvenile correctional institution under a prison contract.
303.01(11)(a)2. 2. “Prison contract" means a contract entered into by the department under sub. (2) (em).
303.01(11)(a)3. 3. “Private employer" means a private business that is a party to a prison contract.
303.01(11)(b) (b) A private employer may not displace an employee or cause another private business to displace an employee.
303.01(11)(c) (c) A private employer may not employ inmates or institution residents under a prison contract if any of the following applies:
303.01(11)(c)1. 1. The inmates or institution residents are to be employed in a skill, craft or trade in which there is a surplus of available labor in the locality of the private employer.
303.01(11)(c)2. 2. The employment of the inmates or institution residents will impair the performance of other contracts to which the private employer is a party.
303.01(11)(c)3. 3. The inmates or institution residents will replace employees who are on strike against the private employer or locked out of work.
303.01(11)(d) (d) A private employer shall post in all of its workplaces a notice provided by the department containing a description of the nature of the prison contract and an explanation of what it means for an employee of a private employer to be displaced under this subsection and identifying a person at the department whom an employee of a private employer may contact if the employee believes that he or she may have been displaced by a prison contract.
303.01 Cross-reference Cross-reference: See also ch. DOC 309, Wis. adm. code.
303.01 Annotation Sub. (8) (b) gives a trial court authority to order restitution distributed from prison wages. A judgment of conviction including an order for restitution is an “other obligation reduced to judgment that may be satisfied according to law." State v. Baker, 2001 WI App 100, 243 Wis. 2d 77, 626 N.W.2d 862, 99-3347.
303.01 Annotation The Department of Corrections was not authorized under sub. (8) (b) to take the defendant's earnings to satisfy unpaid restitution ordered in a judgment that imposed a sentence that the defendant had completed because: 1) the restitution ordered was a condition of parole; and 2) conditions of parole do not survive the completion of a sentence. Therefore, the restitution ordered was not an obligation that may be satisfied according to law within the meaning of sub. (8) (b) after the defendant completed the sentence. Markovic v. Litscher, 2018 WI App 44, 383 Wis. 2d 576, 916 N.W.2d 202, 17-2206.
303.01 Annotation Sub. (8) (b) does not state that the Department of Corrections (DOC) has the authority to set the percentage at which money is deducted from a prisoner's wages to pay restitution or that DOC has authority to do so if the sentencing court and DOC disagree on that percentage. State ex rel. Ortiz v. Carr, 2022 WI App 16, 401 Wis. 2d 450, 973 N.W.2d 786, 20-1394.
303.01 Annotation Inmates are not entitled to federal minimum wage protection. Sundby v. Fiedler, 827 F. Supp. 583 (1993).
303.015 303.015 Prison industries board.
303.015(1)(1)The prison industries board has the following powers and duties:
303.015(1)(a) (a) The department shall submit each department biennial budget request for prison industries and every substantial department-proposed modification of the prison industries budget to the board for review before it is submitted to the department of administration, governor, joint committee on finance or legislature. If the board does not approve the budget request or modification, the board may develop an alternative proposal or a statement that shall be appended to the budget request or modification and submitted with it.
303.015(1)(b) (b) The board shall develop a plan containing recommendations for the manufacture and marketing of prison industries products, the provision of prison industries services and the provision of research and development activities. Whenever feasible, the plan shall include research activities with a facility involved in the cocomposting of solid waste and sludge from wastewater treatment facilities. The plan may include, but is not limited to, recommended market research, product modifications, manufacturing techniques, pricing policies, advertising and elimination or establishment of specific industries or products. No prison industry may be established or permanently closed without approval of the board.
303.015(1)(c) (c) Prior to submission to the legislative council staff for review under s. 227.15, departmental rules relating to hiring, termination, evaluation and compensation of, or other conditions of employment for, inmates or residents in prison industries shall be submitted to the board for approval. Board authority over rules shall not extend to determination of which inmates or residents are eligible for employment in prison industries or to security matters.
303.015(1)(d) (d) No purchase of more than $250,000 may be made for prison industries without prior approval of the board.
303.015(1)(e) (e) The board shall review and either approve or deny a proposal under s. 303.06 (5) to offer for sale in the open market a product or type of product manufactured in whole or in part by inmates as part of a hobby-craft program or vocational training. Once the board has approved the sale of a particular product or type of product under this paragraph, the product or type of product may be offered for sale by any tax-supported or nonprofit agency under s. 303.06 (5) without further approval by the board under this paragraph.
303.015(2) (2)When exercising its powers, the board shall consider the effect of its actions on private business, industry and labor.
303.015(3) (3)In this section, “prison industries" does not include any correctional farm operation.
303.015 History History: 1983 a. 27, 333; 1985 a. 182 s. 57; 1989 a. 31 s. 1675; Stats. 1989 s. 303.015; 1989 a. 335; 1991 a. 39; 1995 a. 27, 389.
303.016 303.016 Accounting system. The department shall establish and implement an accounting system for prison industries, in conformance with generally accepted accounting principles, for purposes of internal budget control. The department shall continue to provide cash-based financial reports and information for prison industries that are required by the department of administration.
303.016 History History: 1983 a. 27; 1989 a. 31 s. 1676; Stats. 1989 s. 303.016; 1989 a. 56 s. 103.
303.018 303.018 Annual report. The departments of corrections and administration shall report, on an annual basis, to the joint committee on finance and to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to the appropriate standing committees under s. 13.172 (3) on the status of the prison industries program. The report shall include all of the following:
303.018(1) (1)The cash balance of each industry at the end of the previous fiscal year.
303.018(2) (2)The cash balance at the end of the previous fiscal year for all prison industries and, if this amount is negative, whether the negative balance is fully offset by applicable assets specified in s. 20.903 (2).
303.018(3) (3)The amount expended by state agencies for wood furniture and for printing, and the portion of that amount for furniture and printing provided by prison industries.
303.018 History History: 1983 a. 27; 1989 a. 31 s. 1677c to 1681; Stats. 1989 s. 303.018; 1989 a. 283.
303.019 303.019 Quarterly report. The departments of corrections and administration shall report, on a quarterly basis, except for the last quarter in a fiscal year, to the joint committee on finance providing a cash balance summary for each prison industry and a projected fiscal year-end profit and loss statement for the prison industry program. The departments shall submit each report within 30 days after the end of the quarter.
303.019 History History: 1989 a. 31 ss. 1681g, 1681gm; Stats. 1989 s. 303.019.
303.03 303.03 Prison labor on farms and buildings. The wardens and the superintendents of the state prisons may employ inmates outside the institution's yard in cultivating the farms or in doing any necessary work in the prosecution of the regular business of the institution or of other state institutions or of any other activity of the state or of any political subdivision thereof or in the construction of buildings by the state; and any such inmate who escapes shall be deemed as having escaped from the institution proper.
303.03 History History: 1989 a. 31 s. 1682; Stats. 1989 s. 303.03.
303.04 303.04 Correctional farms. The board of commissioners of public lands, the department of natural resources and the department may select from the state forest reserves a quantity of land not to exceed 5,000 acres and convert the same into farms for the state prisons.
303.04 History History: 1989 a. 31 s. 1683; Stats. 1989 s. 303.04; 1991 a. 39.
303.05 303.05 Vocational instruction at prisons. The department may maintain in the state prisons vocational schools and instruct the inmates in trades and domestic science; and may create such industries as seem to the department for the best interests of the inmates.
303.05 History History: 1989 a. 31 s. 1684; Stats. 1989 s. 303.05.
303.06 303.06 Prison products; sale.
303.06(1)(1)Except as authorized in this section, no goods, except farm machinery, farm implements and tools, cordage rope and ply goods, manufactured wholly or partly by inmates in any state, city or county penal institution may be offered for sale in the open market.
303.06(2) (2)The department may enter into or renew a contract with a manufacturer or distributor to have prison industries provide products, components or services if at the time that the contract is originally entered into the products, components or services have been supplied to the manufacturer or distributor for the previous 12 months by a facility outside the United States. The department shall collect not less than 5 percent nor more than 20 percent of the gross wages of inmates or residents earned under such a contract to be credited to the appropriation under s. 20.455 (5) (i).
303.06(3) (3)A private business may sell products, components or services under s. 303.01 (2) (em) in the open market. Similar products, components or services from a prison industry program from another state may be sold in the open market. The department shall collect not less than 5 percent nor more than 20 percent of the gross wages of inmates or residents earned pursuant to a contract under s. 303.01 (2) (em) to be credited to the appropriation under s. 20.455 (5) (i).
303.06(4) (4)
303.06(4)(a)(a) The department may sell, in the open market, by-products of mattresses or by-products of paint from prison industries recycling operations. By-products of mattresses and by-products of paint from recycling operations of prisons in another state may be sold in the open market.
303.06(4)(b) (b) The department may enter into or renew a contract with a manufacturer or distributor to have prison industries provide by-products of mattresses or by-products of paint from prison industries recycling operations.
303.06(4)(c) (c) Prior to the establishment of a prison industry under s. 303.01 (1) (b) relating to providing by-products of mattresses or by-products of paint from prison industries recycling operations, providing related notice under s. 303.01 (1) and receiving related approval under s. 303.015 (1) (b) and prior to entering into a contract under par. (b), the department shall provide written notification of the intent to provide those by-products or to enter into a contract to provide those by-products. The department shall provide the notification to those trade organizations and labor unions that the department determines would be interested in receiving the information. The notification shall include specific information on the proposal, the proposal's impact on private business, industry and labor and, if applicable, the method for the trade organization or labor union to communicate with the joint committee on finance before its hearing under s. 303.01 (1) (c) and with the board before it acts under s. 303.015 (1) (b).
303.06(5) (5)A tax-supported institution or a nonprofit agency may offer for sale in the open market products manufactured in whole or in part by inmates in a state penal institution as part of a hobby-craft program or vocational training if the purpose of the sale is to support the institution's or agency's mission or is for some other charitable purpose and if the sale of that product or type of product has been approved by the prison industries board under s. 303.015 (1) (e).
303.06 History History: 1983 a. 272; 1989 a. 31 s. 1685; Stats. 1989 s. 303.06; 1989 a. 283; 1991 a. 269; 1995 a. 27, 241, 389; 1997 a. 27.
303.06 Cross-reference Cross-reference: See also s. DOC 313.18, Wis. adm. code.
303.063 303.063 Secure work program.
303.063(1)(1)The department may establish a secure work program for inmates in which the inmates are assigned to work away from the grounds of the institution while appropriately restrained for security purposes.
303.063(2) (2)If the department establishes a secure work program under sub. (1), the department shall, before implementing the program, promulgate rules specifying the procedures and regulations relating to the program. The rules shall require inmates who are on work assignments under the program to wear distinctively colored outer garments.
303.063 History History: 1995 a. 416.
303.065 303.065 Work release plan for prison inmates.
303.065(1)(a) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), the department may grant work release privileges to any person incarcerated within the state prisons.
303.065(1)(b)1.1. A person serving a life sentence, other than a life sentence specified in subd. 2., may be considered for work release only after he or she has reached parole eligibility under s. 304.06 (1) (b) or 973.014 (1) (a) or (b), whichever is applicable, or he or she has reached his or her extended supervision eligibility date under s. 302.114 (9) (am) or 973.014 (1g) (a) 1. or 2., whichever is applicable.
303.065(1)(b)2. 2. A person serving a life sentence under s. 939.62 (2m) (c) or 973.014 (1) (c) or (1g) (a) 3. may not be considered for work release.
303.065(2) (2)The department shall promulgate rules for the administration of the work release program and shall determine those inmates who may participate in the plan. If any inmate violates the conditions prescribed by the institution, his or her work release privileges may be withdrawn. Failure to report to or return from the planned employment shall be considered an escape under s. 946.42 (3) (a). The department may approve as work release privileges placement in universities, colleges, technical, vocational or trade schools or in sheltered workshops or training programs designed to improve the skills and ability of the inmate.
303.065(2m) (2m)The department may not grant work release privileges to a prisoner who is imprisoned for a violation of s. 346.63 (1), (2), (5) or (6) and who fails to obtain the assessment or to comply with the driver safety plan ordered under s. 343.30 (1q) (c) related to the violation for which he or she was imprisoned. This subsection does not apply if the prisoner does not have sufficient funds to make any payments necessary to obtain the assessment or to comply with the driver safety plan.
303.065(3) (3)The department shall designate and adapt facilities of the state prisons for the purpose of quartering inmates with work release privileges or it may arrange and contract for other facilities, including portions of county jails for inmates employed in the area. An inmate with work release privileges placed in facilities outside a state prison shall be liable for the cost of the inmate's room, board, clothing and other necessary expenses incident to the inmate's employment or placement unless other means of payment are approved by the department. No inmate shall be granted work release privileges until such suitable quarters have been provided in the area of accepted or proffered employment, or educational or training placement.
303.065(4) (4)
303.065(4)(a)(a) Every inmate gainfully employed under a work release program shall be liable for the cost of the inmate's board and clothing, a reasonable room charge as determined by the department, and for any expenses incident to such employment or additional living expenses as circumstances permit, in the judgment of the department, except as provided in sub. (3). When quartered in a prison facility, such costs and expenses shall be fixed by the department.
303.065(4)(b) (b) The wages of inmates gainfully employed shall be collected by the prison responsible for his or her care. The wages are not subject to garnishment either in the hands of the employer or the prison during the inmate's term and shall be disbursed only as provided in this section, but for tax purposes they are income of the prisoner. This paragraph does not apply to wages of inmates participating in the intensive sanctions program.
303.065(5) (5)The salaries or wages of any employed inmates shall be disbursed by the department in the order stated:
303.065(5)(a) (a) The board of the prisoner including food and clothing and any fee charged under s. 301.135;
303.065(5)(b) (b) Necessary travel expense to and from work and other incidental expenses of the prisoner;
303.065(5)(bn) (bn) Payment of the crime victim and witness assistance surcharge under s. 973.045 (4);
303.065(5)(bp) (bp) Payment of the deoxyribonucleic acid analysis surcharge under s. 973.046 (4);
303.065(5)(c) (c) Support of the prisoner's dependents, if any;
303.065(5)(cg) (cg) Payment of the child pornography surcharge under s. 973.042.
303.065(5)(cm) (cm) Payment of the drug offender diversion surcharge under s. 973.043.
303.065(5)(d) (d) A reasonable room charge as determined by the department;
303.065(5)(dm) (dm) Payment for legal representation under s. 977.075 or 977.076;
303.065(5)(e) (e) Payment, either in full or ratably, of the prisoner's obligations acknowledged by the prisoner in writing or which have been reduced to judgment;
303.065(5)(f) (f) The balance, if any, to the prisoner upon the prisoner's discharge.
303.065(6) (6)The department shall credit all moneys that it collects under sub. (5) (a) and (d) to the appropriation account under s. 20.410 (1) (gi).
303.065(7) (7)The department may receive payments for its costs under this section or the department or the attorney general may collect under s. 301.325, but the state may not collect for the same expense twice.
303.065 Cross-reference Cross-reference: See also chs. DOC 309 and 324, Wis. adm. code.
303.065 Annotation There is no need to specifically spell out in s. 56.065 (2) [now sub. (2)] the consequences of an escape when other statutes provide for that situation. Brown v. State, 73 Wis. 2d 703, 245 N.W.2d 670 (1976).
303.065 Annotation Section 56.065 (2) [now sub. (2)] entitles a participating prisoner to a hearing prior to transfer to a maximum security prison. Perrote v. Percy, 444 F. Supp. 1288 (1978).
303.065 Annotation An inmate cannot be deprived of a liberty interest in continuation of work/study release status without a disciplinary due process hearing. Perrote v. Percy, 465 F. Supp. 112 (1979).
303.068 303.068 Leave for qualified inmates.
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2021-22 Wisconsin Statutes updated through 2023 Wis. Act 93 and through all Supreme Court and Controlled Substances Board Orders filed before and in effect on March 22, 2024. Published and certified under s. 35.18. Changes effective after March 22, 2024, are designated by NOTES. (Published 3-22-24)