Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 301 - Corrections.
301.19 - Restrictions on construction or modifications of correctional facilities.

301.19 Restrictions on construction or modifications of correctional facilities.
(1) In this section:
(a) “Authorized jurisdiction" means a county, 2 counties acting jointly under s. 302.44, the United States, or a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band in this state.
(b) “Correctional facility" means an institution or facility, or a portion of an institution or facility, that is used to confine juveniles alleged or found to be delinquent or a prison, jail, house of correction, or lockup facility.
(2) No person may commence construction of a correctional facility or commence conversion of an existing building, structure, or facility into a correctional facility unless the building, structure, or facility is enumerated in the authorized state building program.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to any of the following:
(a) A building, structure, or facility that is constructed or converted under a contract with and for use by an authorized jurisdiction.
(b) A building, structure, or facility the construction of which was completed before January 1, 2001, if the building, structure, or facility was designed to confine persons convicted of a criminal offense.
(4) Unless the governor has declared a state of emergency under s. 323.10, the department may not expand the capacity of, or substantially modify the structure or physical security of, a juvenile correctional facility established under s. 301.16 (1w) without prior approval by the governing body of the city, village, or town in which the juvenile correctional facility is located.
History: 2001 a. 16; 2005 a. 344; 2019 a. 8; 2021 a. 239.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 301 - Corrections.

301.001 - Purposes of chapters.

301.01 - Definitions.

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.

301.04 - Legal actions.

301.045 - Investigations.

301.046 - Community residential confinement.

301.047 - Inmate rehabilitation and aftercare.

301.048 - Intensive sanctions program.

301.049 - Mother-young child care program.

301.05 - Gifts; trustee duty.

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.

301.12 - 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 - 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.

301.31 - Wages to prisoners.

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.

301.335 - 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.

301.373 - 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.

301.50 - Notification of intent to chaperone sex offenders.