2019 Wisconsin Act 111

  Date of enactment: February 28, 2020
2019 Senate Bill 70   Date of publication*: February 29, 2020

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2019 WISCONSIN ACT 111

An Act to renumber and amend 302.095 (2); and to create 302.095 (2) (a) 2. and 302.095 (2) (b) of the statutes; relating to: bringing contraband into a jail or prison and providing a penalty.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

111,1 Section 1. 302.095 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 302.095 (2) (a) (intro.) and amended to read:

302.095 (2) (a) (intro.) Any officer or other person who delivers or does any of the following contrary to the rules or regulations and without the knowledge or permission of the sheriff or other keeper of the jail, in the case of a jail, or the warden or superintendent of the prison, in the case of a prison, is guilty of a Class I felony:

1. Delivers, procures to be delivered, or has in his or her possession with intent to deliver to any inmate confined in a jail or state prison, or who deposits or conceals in or about a jail or prison, or the precincts of a jail or prison, or in any vehicle going into the premises belonging to a jail or prison, any article or thing whatever, with intent that any inmate confined in the jail or prison shall obtain or receive the same, or who receives.

3. Receives from any inmate any article or thing whatever with intent to convey the same out of a jail or prison, contrary to the rules or regulations and without the knowledge or permission of the sheriff or other keeper of the jail, in the case of a jail, or of the warden or superintendent of the prison, in the case of a prison, is guilty of a Class I felony.

111,2 Section 2. 302.095 (2) (a) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

302.095 (2) (a) 2. Deposits or conceals in or about a jail or prison, or the precincts of a jail or prison, or in any vehicle going into the premises belonging to a jail or prison, any article or thing whatever, with intent that any inmate confined in the jail or prison shall obtain or receive the same.

111,3 Section 3. 302.095 (2) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

302.095 (2) (b) Any person who, contrary to the rules or regulations and without the knowledge or permission of the sheriff or other keeper of the jail, in the case of a jail, or the warden or superintendent of the prison, in the case of a prison, has in his or her possession with intent to retain for himself or herself any article or thing whatever, is guilty of a Class I felony.