Wisconsin Statutes
Wis. Stat. § 302.06 (2026)
Delivery of persons to prisons
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302.06302.06 Delivery of persons to prisons. The sheriff shall deliver to the reception center designated by the department every person convicted in the county and sentenced to the Wisconsin state prisons or to the intensive sanctions program as soon as may be after sentence, together with a copy of the judgment of conviction. The warden or superintendent shall deliver to the sheriff a receipt acknowledging receipt of the person, naming the person, which receipt the sheriff shall file in the office of the clerk who issued the copy of the judgment of conviction. When transporting or delivering the person to any of the Wisconsin state prisons the sheriff shall be accompanied by an adult of the same sex as the person. If the sheriff and the person are of the same sex, this requirement is satisfied and a 3rd person is not required.
302.06 HistoryHistory: 1975 c. 94; 1975 c. 189 s. 99 (1); 1975 c. 224 s. 146m; 1989 a. 31 s. 1623; Stats. 1989 s. 302.06; 1991 a. 39.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 2009–2009 · leading case: Brown Cnty. Sheriff's Dep't Non-Supervisory Labor Ass'n v. Brown Cnty., 2009 WI App 75 (Wis. Ct. App. 2009).
Brown Cnty. Sheriff's Dep't Non-Supervisory Labor Ass'n v. Brown Cnty., 2009 WI App 75 (Wis. Ct. App. 2009). “The Association contends Wis. Stat. §§ 302.06 and 59.27(4) require the sheriff or sheriffs department employees to conduct intrastate transports of prisoners.”
Milwaukee Deputy Sheriff's Ass'n v. Clarke, 2009 WI App 123 (Wis. Ct. App. 2009). “This matter arises out of a lawsuit filed by the Milwaukee Deputy Sheriffs Association and two of its members (collectively referred to as DSA) seeking a declaration that Sheriff Clarke's attempts to contract with an outside agency for inmate transport services violated Wis.…”
Milwaukee Deputy Sheriff's Ass'n v. Clarke, 2009 WI App 123 (Wis. Ct. App. 2009). “§§ 302.06 and 59.27(4). DSA also asked the trial court to order Sheriff Clarke to use only its members for the transport of prisoners, mental health patients, and juveniles in custody.”
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