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2010 Wisconsin Code
Chapter 302. Prisons; state, county and municipal.
302.08 Humane treatment and punishment.
302.08
302.08 Humane treatment and punishment. The wardens and the superintendents and all prison officials shall uniformly treat the inmates with kindness. There shall be no corporal or other painful and unusual punishment inflicted upon inmates.302.08 - ANNOT.
History: 1989 a. 31 s. 1625; Stats. 1989 s. 302.08.302.08 - ANNOT.
Cross Reference: See also chs. DOC 303, 308, 309, and 311, Wis. adm. code.302.08 - ANNOT.
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