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2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 940 - Crimes against life and bodily security.
940.29 - Abuse of residents of penal facilities.
Universal Citation: WI Stat § 940.29 (2021)
940.29 Abuse of residents of penal facilities. Any person in charge of or employed in a penal or correctional institution or other place of confinement who abuses, neglects or ill-treats any person confined in or a resident of any such institution or place or who knowingly permits another person to do so is guilty of a Class I felony.
History: 1975 c. 119; 1975 c. 413 s. 18; 1977 c. 173; 1979 c. 124; 1981 c. 20; 1987 a. 161 ss. 12, 13m; 1987 a. 332; 1993 a. 445; 2001 a. 109.
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