Administrative Code Provisions | Wis. Admin. Code DOC ยง 328.01 | 2018
The purposes of this chapter are to provide rules for community and facility-based supervision, services, and programs for clients under control in order to assure public safety, promote social reintegration, reduce repetition of crime and carry out the statutory directives under s. 301.001, Stats. The following specific goals and objectives are relevant towards fulfillment of these purposes:
(1) To supervise and control offenders to the extent necessary to meet public, staff, and offender safety responsibilities;
(2) To provide opportunities for obtaining education, training, work experience, coping skills, and other programs and services to enable offenders to live constructive lives;
(3) To provide access to community-based programs for probationers and parolees for whom such programs are desirable and necessary;
(4) To establish necessary guidelines, procedures, and controls to maintain program, staff, and fiscal accountability and to promote program efficiency and effectiveness;
(5) To cooperate with other public and private agencies in activities for the purpose of prevention of crime and to provide alternatives to institutionalization; and
(6) To protect the health and rights of all persons involved in the department's programs and activities.
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Note: DOC 328.01. Wisconsin corrections' statements of purpose and goals regarding community supervision affirm that all planning and decision-making are consistent with all laws relevant to the state's responsibility for the care and supervision of clients under its control and supervision.
S. 301.001, Stats., sets forth the broad purposes of the department. Several other statutory provisions set forth the department's specific responsibilities for the supervision of clients under its control. Those provisions are noted in the following sections, and are consistent with the purposes and goals under this section.
This section is in accord with the American Correctional Association's Manual of Standards for Adult Probation and Parole Field Services (1977) (hereinafter "ACA"), standard 3112.