301.36 General supervision and inspection by department.
(1) General authority. The department shall investigate and supervise all of the state prisons under s. 302.01, all juvenile correctional facilities, all secured residential care centers for children and youth, and all juvenile detention facilities and familiarize itself with all of the circumstances affecting their management and usefulness.
(2) Prisons. The department shall visit all places in which persons convicted or suspected of crime are confined, and ascertain their arrangement for the separation of the hardened criminals from juvenile offenders and persons suspected of crime or detained as witnesses; collect statistics concerning the inmates, their treatment, employment and reformation; and collect information of other facts and considerations affecting the increase or decrease of crime.
(3) Inspections. The department shall inquire into the methods of treatment, instruction, government and management of inmates of the institutions mentioned in this section; the conduct of their trustees, managers, directors, superintendents and other officers and employees; the condition of the buildings, grounds and all other property pertaining to the institutions, and all other matters pertaining to their usefulness and management; and recommend to the officers in charge such changes and additional provisions as it deems proper.
(4) Frequency of inspections. The department shall inspect and investigate each institution at least annually and, when directed by the governor, it shall conduct a special investigation into an institution's management, or anything connected with its management, and report to the governor the testimony taken, the facts found and conclusions drawn.
(5) Enforcement by attorney general and district attorneys. Upon request of the department, the attorney general or the district attorney serving the proper county shall aid in any investigation, inspection, hearing or trial had under this chapter or those sections of ch. 938 relating to powers of the department, and shall institute and prosecute all necessary actions or proceedings for the enforcement of those provisions and for the punishment of violations of those provisions. The attorney general or district attorney so requested shall report or confer with the department regarding the request, within 30 days after receipt of the request.
(6) Opportunity to inspect. All trustees, managers, directors, superintendents and other officers or employees of the institutions shall at all times afford to every member of the department and its agents, unrestrained facility for inspection of and free access to all parts of the buildings and grounds and to all books and papers of the institutions; and shall give, either verbally or in writing, such information as the department requires. Any person who violates this subsection shall forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $100.
(7) Testimonial power; expenses. The director or any person delegated by the director may administer oaths, take testimony and cause depositions to be taken. All expenses of the investigations, including fees of officers and witnesses, shall be charged to the appropriation for the department.
(8) Statistics to be furnished. Wherever the department is required to collect statistics, the person or agency shall furnish the required statistics on request.
(9) Cooperation with local governing bodies. Upon request by the governing body of a city, village, or town in which a juvenile correctional facility established under s. 301.16 (1w) is located, the department shall meet with the governing body to discuss matters of local concern pertaining to the juvenile correctional facility.
History: 1989 a. 31, 107; 1995 a. 27, 77; 1999 a. 9; 2005 a. 344; 2019 a. 8.
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.