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.
History: 1989 a. 31, 107; 1995 a. 27.
The Department of Corrections 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.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
301.001 - Purposes of chapters.
301.02 - Institutions governed.
301.025 - Division of juvenile corrections.
301.027 - Treatment program at one or more juvenile correctional facilities.
301.029 - Contracts requiring prisoner access to personal information.
301.03 - General corrections authority.
301.032 - Juvenile correctional services; supervisory functions of state department.
301.035 - Division of hearings and appeals; administrator's general duties.
301.046 - Community residential confinement.
301.047 - Inmate rehabilitation and aftercare.
301.048 - Intensive sanctions program.
301.049 - Mother-young child care program.
301.055 - Prisoner population limits.
301.06 - Education and prevention.
301.065 - Religious organizations; contract powers.
301.068 - Community services to reduce recidivism.
301.07 - Cooperation and contracts with federal government.
301.073 - American Indian tribal community reintegration program.
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.
301.103 - Prescription drug formulary.
301.105 - Telephone company commissions.
301.11 - Reports of corrections institutions.
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 - Restrictions on construction or modifications of correctional facilities.
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 - Juvenile correctional services; state services.
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.
301.30 - Inmate wages, allowances and release payments.
301.315 - Corrections programs report.
301.32 - Property of prisoners, residents and probationers.
301.323 - Vendors of personal property items.
301.325 - Prisoner reimbursement to the state.
301.328 - Judgment for litigation loans to prisoners.
301.33 - Freedom of worship; religious ministration.
301.35 - Law enforcement officer access to department records.
301.36 - General supervision and inspection by department.
301.37 - County buildings; establishment, approval, inspection.
301.373 - Operating loss reimbursement program.
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.
301.475 - Sex offenders to notify schools.
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.