Any person in charge of or employed in a penal or correctional institution or other place of confinement who abuses, neglects or ill-treats any person confined in or a resident of any such institution or place or who knowingly permits another person to do so is guilty of a Class I felony.
Wis. Stat. § 940.29
Abuse of residents of penal facilities
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case State Ex Rel. Lindell v. Litscher (2003)
Most recently applied in 329 Wis. 2d 724 - Naseer v. Miller (September 2010)
1975 c. 119; 1975 c. 413 s. 18; 1977 c. 173; 1979 c. 124; 1981 c. 20; 1987 a. 161 ss. 12, 13m; 1987 a. 332; 1993 a. 445; 2001 a. 109.
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