Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 302 - Prisons; state, county and municipal.
302.375 - Restrictions on liquor and dangerous drugs; placement of prisoners.

302.375 Restrictions on liquor and dangerous drugs; placement of prisoners.
(1g) In this section:
(a) “Controlled substance" has the meaning given in s. 961.01 (4).
(am) “Controlled substance analog" has the meaning given in s. 961.01 (4m).
(b) “Precinct" means a place where any activity is conducted by the prison, jail or house of correction.
(1m) Except as provided in sub. (2m), any sheriff, jailer or keeper of any prison, jail or house of correction or any other person who does any of the following with respect to a prisoner within the precincts of any prison, jail or house of correction shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than 9 months or both:
(a) Sells, gives or delivers any intoxicating liquor to the prisoner.
(b) Willfully permits a prisoner to have any controlled substance, controlled substance analog or intoxicating liquor.
(c) Has within his or her possession in the prison, jail or house of correction any intoxicating liquor, with intent to sell, give or deliver the liquor to the prisoner.
(2) Except as provided in sub. (2m), any prisoner who uses intoxicating liquor in violation of s. 302.37 (2) shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both.
(2m) A member of the clergy may possess no more than 2 ounces of wine in a prison, jail, or house of correction if he or she intends to use it in a religious service. A member of the clergy may give or deliver a reasonable amount of wine to an inmate and an inmate may consume that wine as part of a religious service. The department is not required to purchase or store wine for an inmate, a chaplain, or any other member of the clergy who is acting under this subsection.
(3)
(a) Any sheriff, jailer or keeper of any prison, jail or house of correction or any other person who places, keeps together or knowingly permits to be kept together prisoners of different sexes within the precincts of any prison, jail or house of correction shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 6 months or both.
(b) Notwithstanding par. (a), the sheriff, jailer or keeper may permit prisoners of different sexes to participate together in treatment or in educational, vocational, religious or athletic activities or to eat together, under such supervision as the sheriff, jailer or keeper deems necessary.
History: 1977 c. 337; 1979 c. 116; 1983 a. 185; 1989 a. 31 s. 1654; Stats. 1989 s. 302.375; 1995 a. 448; 2001 a. 103; 2005 a. 67; 2021 a. 240 s. 30.

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