Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Corrections › Chapter DOC 346 - Secure Detention For Juveniles › Subchapter I - General Provisions › Section DOC 346.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1)
				"Cell" means a secure room designed and used as a sleeping room for one or 2
				juveniles.
(2) "Construction plans"
				mean the site plans, drawings, and specifications for construction or
				remodeling of a facility.
(3)
				"Contraband" means any item not allowed in a facility by the
				superintendent.
(4) "Day room"
				means an area usable and accessible by juveniles, contiguous to each group of
				cells, and designed and used for leisure activities.
(5) "Department" means the department of
				corrections.
(6) "Dormitory" means
				a secure area designed for three or more juveniles and used for sleeping and
				day room activities.
(7) "Facility"
				means either a juvenile detention facility or the juvenile portion of a county
				jail.
(8) "Facility program" means
				a written narrative that describes basic operational functions and spaces
				needed to meet those functions.
(9)
				"Family" means parents, grandparents, guardians, foster parents, and legal
				custodians.
(10) "Holding room"
				means a secure room designed for holding one or more juveniles of the same
				gender for the purpose of processing admissions, releases, investigations or
				court appearances.
(11) "Juvenile"
				has the meaning given in s.
				938.02(10m),
				Stats.
(12) "Juvenile detention
				facility" has the meaning given in ch. 938, Stats., and includes a stand alone
				facility or a facility located in the same building or on the same grounds as a
				county jail.
(13) "Juvenile portion
				of a county jail" means an area which is used for the detention of juveniles
				and which is part of a county jail.
(14) "Living area" means the part of a
				juvenile detention facility normally occupied by juveniles, including day
				rooms, multi-purpose space, and adjacent control centers.
(15) "Multi-purpose space" means activity
				areas designed and used for education, recreation, library services, and other
				juvenile program activities. Multi-purpose space does not include cells, day
				rooms or dormitories.
(16)
				"Officer" or "juvenile detention officer" has the meaning given in s.
				165.85(2)
				(bt), Stats.
(17) "Privileged mail" means any written
				communication between a juvenile and an attorney, court, government or facility
				official.
(18) "Rated bed capacity"
				means the design capacity approved by the department under this chapter, based
				on single occupancy cells under s.
				DOC
				346.14(2), double occupancy cells
				under s.
				DOC
				346.15, and dormitories under s.
				DOC
				346.14(3).
(19) "Receiving cell" means a cell used to
				segregate a juvenile for purposes of admission, release, discipline,
				investigation or court appearances.
(20) "Superintendent" means:
(a) The individual designated to be in charge
				of a juvenile detention facility under s.
				938.22(3)
				(a), Stats., or the director as specified in
				s.
				938.22(3)
				(b), Stats.; or
(b) In the case of the juvenile portion of
				the county jail, the sheriff of a county in which the jail is located pursuant
				to s.
				59.27(1),
				Stats.