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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 SENATE BILL 776
December 8, 2023 - Introduced by Senator LARSON, cosponsored by Representatives
MADISON, CLANCY, HONG, J. ANDERSON, BALDEH, CONLEY, CONSIDINE, EMERSON,
JOERS, MOORE OMOKUNDE, PALMERI, SHELTON, SINICKI and STUBBS. Referred to
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
AN ACT to create 302.073 of the statutes; relating to: inmate access to the
outdoors.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Corrections and county sheriffs to provide
every inmate being held in a state correctional institution or county house of
correction with three hours per week of outdoor time, unless the inmate is being held
in the Milwaukee secure detention facility, in which case the three-hour per week
requirement does not apply until the inmate's 91st day of holding at that institution.
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. 302.073 of the statutes is created to read:
302.073 Outdoor access by inmates of state correctional institutions or
county houses of correction. (1) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), the warden
or superintendent of a state correctional institution shall ensure that each inmate
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is permitted to access the outdoors for 3 hours per week unless the inmate is subject
to a prison lockdown or is being held in solitary confinement.
(b) The requirement under par. (a) does not apply to inmates being held in the
state correctional institution under s. 302.01 (1) (i) until their 91st day of holding in
that state correctional institution.
(2) The county sheriff shall ensure that each inmate in a county house of
correction is permitted to access the outdoors for 3 hours per week unless the inmate
is subject to a jail lockdown or is being held in solitary confinement.
SECTION 2.0Initial applicability.
(1) MILWAUKEE SECURE DETENTION FACILITY. The treatment of s. 302.073 (1) first
applies to the state correctional institution under s. 302.01 (1) (i) on January 1, 2026.
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