The purposes of this chapter and chs. 302 to 304 are to prevent delinquency and crime by an attack on their causes; to provide a just, humane and efficient program of rehabilitation of offenders; and to coordinate and integrate corrections programs with other social services. In creating the department of corrections, chs. 301 to 304, the legislature intends that the state continue to avoid sole reliance on incarceration of offenders and continue to develop, support and maintain professional community programs and placements.
Wis. Stat. § 301.001
Purposes of chapters
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 197 Wis. 2d 279 - State v. Post (1995)
Most recently applied in 407 Wis. 2d 321 - State v. Corey T. Rector (May 2023)
1989 a. 31, 107; 1995 a. 27
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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