DOA:......Hutter, BB0477 - Contracts for temporary housing for or detention of persons on probation or prisoners rate
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM
Adult correctional system
Contracts for temporary housing for or detention of persons placed on probation or sentenced to imprisonment
Under current law, DOC may contract with local units of government for temporary housing or detention in jails or houses of correction for persons placed on probation or sentenced to imprisonment in state prisons or to the intensive sanctions program. Under such a contract, the rate may not exceed $60 per person per day. This bill increases the rate that may be set under such a contract to up to $80 per person per day.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. 302.27 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
302.27 (1) The department may contract with a local unit of government, as defined in s. 16.957 (1) (k), for temporary housing or detention in county jails, county houses of correction, or tribal jails for persons placed on probation or sentenced to imprisonment in state prisons or to the intensive sanctions program. The rate under any such contract may not exceed $60 $80 per person per day. Nothing in this subsection limits the authority of the department to place persons in jails under s. 301.048 (3) (a) 1.
Section 9308. Initial applicability; Corrections.
(1) Contracts for temporary housing in county jails. The treatment of s. 302.27 (1) first applies to contracts entered into, renewed, or modified on the effective date of this subsection.
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