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.
301.265 Diversion of youth from gang activities.
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.
301.287 Correctional officer overtime.
301.29 Bonds of employees; police powers; investigation of complaints.
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.
301.001
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.
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. 51.15,
51.20,
51.45 (11) (b) or
55.06 (11) (a) or
ch. 980. "Prisoner" does not include any of the following:
301.01(2)(b)
(b) Any resident of a secured correctional facility, a secured child caring institution or a secured group home.
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(4)
(4) "State correctional institution" means a state prison under
s. 302.01 or a secured 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.
301.025
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 juvenile boot camp program under
s. 938.532, the serious juvenile offender program under
s. 938.538 and youth aids.
301.025 History
History: 1995 a. 27,
77.
301.027
301.027
Treatment program at one or more juvenile secured correctional facilities. The department shall maintain a cottage-based intensive alcohol and other drug abuse program at one or more juvenile secured correctional facilities.
301.027 History
History: 1995 a. 27;
1999 a. 9.
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.
301.03(2r)
(2r) Conduct drug testing of prospective parolees or persons to be placed on extended supervision who have undergone treatment while in state prison.
301.03(3)
(3) Administer parole, extended supervision and probation matters, except that the decision to grant or deny parole to inmates shall be made by the parole commission and the decision to revoke probation, extended supervision or parole in cases in which there is no waiver of the right to a hearing shall be made by the division of hearings and appeals in the department of administration. The secretary may grant special action parole releases under
s. 304.02. The department shall promulgate rules establishing a drug testing program for probationers, parolees and persons placed on extended supervision. The rules shall provide for assessment of fees upon probationers, parolees and persons placed on extended supervision to partially offset the costs of the program.
301.03(3b)
(3b) Establish regulations for persons placed on lifetime supervision under
s. 939.615, supervise and provide services to persons placed on lifetime supervision under
s. 939.615 and promulgate rules for the administration of matters relating to lifetime supervision under
s. 939.615.
301.03(3c)
(3c) If requested by the department of health and family services, contract with that department to supervise and provide services to persons who are conditionally transferred or discharged under
s. 51.37 (9), conditionally released under s.
971.17 (3) or placed on supervised release under s.
980.06 (2), 1997 stats., or
s. 980.08.
301.03(3d)
(3d) If requested by the department of health and family services, contract with that department to provide a secure mental health unit or facility under
s. 980.065 (2).
301.03(3g)
(3g) Provide treatment for alcoholics and intoxicated persons on parole or extended supervision.
301.03(3m)
(3m) Monitor compliance with deferred prosecution agreements under
s. 971.39.
301.03(3r)
(3r) If any restitution ordered under
s. 973.20 (1r) remains unpaid at the time that a person's probation or sentence expires, or he or she is discharged by the department, give to the person upon release, or send to the person at his or her last-known address, written notification that a civil judgment may be issued against the person for the unpaid restitution.
301.03(4)
(4) If requested by the governor, make recommendations as to pardons or commutations of sentence.
301.03(5)
(5) Examine all institutions authorized by law to receive and detain witnesses, prisoners or convicted persons, and inquire into all matters relating to their management, including the management of witnesses, prisoners or convicted persons, and the condition of buildings and grounds and other property connected with the institutions.
301.03(6)
(6) Direct the correctional psychiatric service in all state correctional institutions.
301.03(6m)
(6m) On or before January 30 of each year, after consultation with the department of health and family services, report 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 all of the following:
301.03(6m)(a)
(a) The number of prisoners transferred to a mental health institute under
s. 51.20 (13) (a) 4. and their average length of stay and the number of prisoners transferred to a mental health institute on a voluntary basis and their average length of stay.
301.03(6m)(b)
(b) The number of prisoners being treated with psychotropic drugs on both a voluntary and involuntary basis and the types of drugs being used.
301.03(6m)(c)
(c) A description of the mental health services available to prisoners on both a voluntary and involuntary basis.
301.03(6r)
(6r) By January 30 of each year, submit a report 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 number of prisoners that the department considers to be violent and the total number of prisoners.
301.03(7)
(7) Direct the educational programs, including an adult basic education program, in all state correctional institutions. The department shall test the reading ability of each prisoner.
301.03(7m)
(7m) Supervise criminal defendants accepted into the custody of the department under
s. 969.02 (3) (a) or
969.03 (1) (a). The department shall charge the county that is prosecuting the defendant a fee for providing this supervision. The department shall set the fee by rule.
301.03(9r)
(9r) Supervise all persons placed in the serious juvenile offender program under
s. 938.538.
301.03(10)(a)(a) Execute the laws relating to the detention, reformation and correction of delinquents.
301.03(10)(b)
(b) Direct the aftercare of and supervise all delinquents under its jurisdiction and exercise such functions as it deems appropriate for the prevention of delinquency.
301.03(10)(c)
(c) Promote the enforcement of laws for the protection of delinquent children. To this end, the department shall cooperate with courts assigned to exercise jurisdiction under
chs. 48 and
938, county departments under
ss. 46.215,
46.22 and
46.23 and licensed child welfare agencies and institutions in providing community-based programming, including in-home programming and intensive supervision, for delinquent children. The department shall also establish and enforce standards for the development and delivery of services provided by the department under
ch. 938 in regard to juveniles who have been adjudicated delinquent.
301.03(10)(d)
(d) Administer the office of juvenile offender review in the division of juvenile corrections in the department. The office shall be responsible for decisions regarding case planning, the release of juvenile offenders from secured correctional facilities or secured child caring institutions to aftercare placements and the transfer of juveniles to the Racine youthful offender correctional facility named in
s. 302.01 as provided in
s. 938.357 (4) (d).
301.03(10)(e)
(e) Provide educational programs in all secured correctional facilities operated by the department.
301.03(10)(f)
(f) Provide health services and psychiatric services for residents of all secured correctional facilities operated by the department.
301.03(10)(g)
(g) Keep statistics, by race, age and gender, of the number of juveniles over whom the court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under
chs. 48 and
938 waives its jurisdiction under
s. 938.18 as well as the nature of the waiver that was ordered and annually report those statistics to the governor, and to the appropriate standing committees under
s. 13.172 (3).
