Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Corrections
Chapter DOC 309 - Resources For Inmates
Section DOC 309.02 - Definitions

Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง DOC 309.02

Current through August 26, 2024

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Adjustment committee" means the adjustment committee authorized under the departmental disciplinary rules to impose disciplinary measures for inmate misconduct.

(2) "Administrator" means the administrator of the division of adult institutions, department of corrections, or designee.

(3) "Clinical services unit supervisor" means the clinical services unit supervisor at an institution, or designee.

(4) "Close family member" under ss. DOC 309.08 and 309.41 to means 309.49 the inmate's natural, adoptive, step, and foster parents; spouse, children, grandparents, grandchildren, or siblings. A parent surrogate is within the definition of parent if an inmate substantiates that a claimed surrogate did in fact act as a parent to the inmate, although the parent surrogate was not an adoptive, foster, or stepparent.

(5) Contraband has the meaning given in s. DOC 303.02(8).

(6) "Department" means the department of corrections.

(7) "Division" means the department of corrections, division of adult institutions.

(7m) "Features" means the publication contains depictions of nudity on a routine or regular basis or promotes itself based upon depictions of nudity in the case of individual one-time issues. The department will not prohibit a publication solely because it contains nudity that has a medical, educational or anthropological purpose.

(8) "General or trust account" means an account established by an institution to receive all funds for the benefit of an inmate.

(9) "Human sexual behavior" means the actual or simulated act of any of the following:

(a) Sexual intercourse, which means any penetration, however slight, by the penis into the mouth, vagina, or anus of another person, or any penetration by any part of the body or an object into the anus or vagina of another person.

(b) Fellatio or cunnilingus.

(c) Sodomy.

(d) Bestiality.

(e) Masturbation.

(f) Necrophilia.

(g) Sexual sadism or sexual masochistic abuse including, but not limited to, flagellation, torture, or bondage.

(h) Sexual excitement.

(10) "Institution business manager" means the person designated to receive and disburse money and property at each institution or that person's designee.

(12) "Mail" means materials such as letters and other items of correspondence processed through the United States postal service and letters and other items of correspondence processed within an institution.

(14) "Nudity" for commercially published material means the showing of human male or female genitals or pubic area with less than a fully opaque covering, or the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of the areola or nipple, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. "Nudity" for purposes of a personal photograph means the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering, or the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of the areola or nipple, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.

(15) "Photograph" means an image on film, video tape, or electronic transmission.

(16) "Pornography" means any of the following:

(a) Any material, other than written material, that depicts any of the following:
1. Human sexual behavior.

2. Sadomasochistic abuse, including but not limited to flagellation, bondage, brutality to or mutilation or physical torture of a human being.

3. Unnatural preoccupation with human excretion.

4. Nudity which is not part of any published photograph or printed material, such as a personal nude photograph.

5. Nudity of any person who has not attained the age of 18.

(b) A publication that features nudity.

(c) Written material which the average person, applying state contemporary community standards, would find, when taken as a whole does all of the following:
1. Appeals to the prurient interest.

2. Describes human sexual behavior in a patently offensive way.

3. Lacks serious literary, artistic, political, educational, or scientific value.

(18) "Release account" means an account established for an inmate in which a percentage of the inmate's income is deposited, in accordance with s. DOC 309.466 so that the inmate has sufficient funds when released from the institution to purchase release clothing, out-of-state transportation, and other items and services needed on release.

(19) "Representatives of the news media" means persons whose principle employment is to gather or report news for any of the following:

(a) A newspaper that qualifies as a general circulation newspaper of record in the community in which it is published.

(b) A news magazine that publishes news of a general character and of general interest which has a statewide or national circulation and is distributed at newsstands or by mail subscription to the general public.

(c) A statewide, national, or international news service.

(d) A radio or television news program of general character and general interest, at a station holding a federal communications commission license.

(20) "Secretary" means the secretary of the department of corrections, or designee.

(21) "Security director" means the security director at an institution, or designee.

(22) "Segregated account" means an account established for the receipt and disbursement of funds received by inmates for participation in a work or study release program under ch. DOC 324 and certain institution educational programs. Such funds include, but are not limited to, social security, veterans administration, and railroad retirement funds.

(23) "Sexual excitement" means the condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.

(24) "Warden" means the warden at an institution, or designee.

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