Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Corrections
Chapter DOC 376 - Security in Type 1 secured correctional facilities
Section DOC 376.18 - Incident review process
Current through February 24, 2025
Committee review of incidents involving the use of physical force, room confinement, mechanical restraints applied for more than 45 minutes, and any strip searches shall be consistent with all of the following:
(1) The review committee will include all staff directly involved in an incident, their supervisors, the case manager assigned to the youth, the psychology staff who are familiar with the youth, the facility director of security, the deputy superintendent, and the superintendent.
(2) Within 24 hours of the incident, all available members of the review committee shall meet to assess whether physical force, room confinement, or mechanical restraints were used appropriately, to discuss less restrictive alternative strategies that staff could have used, and to provide an opportunity for staff training or redirection or both if needed.
(3) If not all members of the review committee are available for the meeting within 24 hours of the incident, the full review committee shall meet or confer as soon as possible and no later than one week after the incident.
(4) The review committee shall also review all uses of strip searches weekly to ensure that any such searches were conducted only upon probable cause.
