303.01 Prison industries. (1) Creation. (a) In this subsection “manufacturing” includes reprocessing, repairing, salvaging, servicing and storing. (b) The department, with the approval of the prison industries board and after a hearing is held under par. (c), may establish industries for the employment of inmates in the state prisons or residents in any correctional institution […]
303.015 Prison industries board. (1) The prison industries board has the following powers and duties: (a) The department shall submit each department biennial budget request for prison industries and every substantial department-proposed modification of the prison industries budget to the board for review before it is submitted to the department of administration, governor, joint committee […]
303.016 Accounting system. The department shall establish and implement an accounting system for prison industries, in conformance with generally accepted accounting principles, for purposes of internal budget control. The department shall continue to provide cash-based financial reports and information for prison industries that are required by the department of administration. History: 1983 a. 27; 1989 […]
303.018 Annual report. The departments of corrections and administration shall report, on an annual basis, 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 status of the prison industries program. The report shall include […]
303.019 Quarterly report. The departments of corrections and administration shall report, on a quarterly basis, except for the last quarter in a fiscal year, to the joint committee on finance providing a cash balance summary for each prison industry and a projected fiscal year-end profit and loss statement for the prison industry program. The departments […]
303.03 Prison labor on farms and buildings. The wardens and the superintendents of the state prisons may employ inmates outside the institution’s yard in cultivating the farms or in doing any necessary work in the prosecution of the regular business of the institution or of other state institutions or of any other activity of the […]
303.04 Correctional farms. The board of commissioners of public lands, the department of natural resources and the department may select from the state forest reserves a quantity of land not to exceed 5,000 acres and convert the same into farms for the state prisons. History: 1989 a. 31 s. 1683; Stats. 1989 s. 303.04; 1991 […]
303.05 Vocational instruction at prisons. The department may maintain in the state prisons vocational schools and instruct the inmates in trades and domestic science; and may create such industries as seem to the department for the best interests of the inmates. History: 1989 a. 31 s. 1684; Stats. 1989 s. 303.05.
303.06 Prison products; sale. (1) Except as authorized in this section, no goods, except farm machinery, farm implements and tools, cordage rope and ply goods, manufactured wholly or partly by inmates in any state, city or county penal institution may be offered for sale in the open market. (2) The department may enter into or […]
303.063 Secure work program. (1) The department may establish a secure work program for inmates in which the inmates are assigned to work away from the grounds of the institution while appropriately restrained for security purposes. (2) If the department establishes a secure work program under sub. (1), the department shall, before implementing the program, […]
303.065 Work release plan for prison inmates. (1) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), the department may grant work release privileges to any person incarcerated within the state prisons. (b) 1. A person serving a life sentence, other than a life sentence specified in subd. 2., may be considered for work release only after […]
303.068 Leave for qualified inmates. (1) An inmate eligible for confinement in a minimum security institution as established by the department may be allowed by the department to leave confinement for one of the following purposes: (a) To visit a parent, child, spouse, grandparent, brother or sister who is seriously ill. (b) To attend the […]
303.069 Correctional institution enterprises; activities of inmates. The department shall record the source of all moneys received under s. 20.410 (1) (kc), crediting each amount received to the institution where the inmate activity occurred or to the department. The department shall allocate moneys under s. 20.410 (1) (kc) so that the allocation of each institution […]
303.07 County reforestation camps. (1) Any county may by ordinance designate any county forest project under s. 28.11 to be a county reforestation camp and provide facilities therein for keeping and maintaining prisoners and giving them employment not exceeding 8 hours each day, without compensation unless otherwise determined by the county board, in charge of […]
303.08 “ Huber Law”; employment of county jail prisoners. (1) Any person sentenced to a county jail for crime, nonpayment of a fine or forfeiture, or contempt of court or subject to a confinement sanction under s. 302.113 (8m) or 302.114 (8m) or a probationer detained in a county jail, tribal jail, or other county […]
303.09 Huber facilities. (1) The county board of any county may establish, relocate and maintain an unlocked facility for use exclusively by persons granted leave privileges under s. 303.08 (1) and persons confined under s. 973.09 (4) or 973.11 (1) (b). The facility need not be located at the county seat. (2) The county boards […]
303.10 County work camp. (1) (a) Subject to par. (b), the county board of any county may provide a work camp for the reformation and employment of persons sentenced to the county jail. Any 2 or more counties may jointly provide one work camp. (b) Before establishing a work camp under par. (a), the county […]
303.16 County house of correction. (1) The county board of any county may, pursuant to s. 301.37, establish, relocate and maintain within the county a house of correction for the reformation and employment of persons sentenced to confinement therein. (2) The expenses of maintaining a house of correction under sub. (1), above all receipts for […]
303.17 Administration and management. (1) The county board of supervisors shall control the management of a house of correction under s. 303.16, pursuant to such regulations and under the direct supervision and control of such officers as the county board of supervisors prescribes. No such regulation may be finally adopted on the day on which […]
303.18 Commitments; municipal prisoners; contract with other county. (1) Every court of record authorized to commit any person to the county jail upon conviction of any offense, or authorized to sentence any person to imprisonment in the Wisconsin state prisons for any term not exceeding one year, may, in lieu of the sentence, commit or […]
