Wis. Admin. Code Department of Corrections DOC 309.155 - Legal services
(1) POLICY. It is the policy of the
department to permit inmates reasonable access to the judicial process and to
legal materials, and to afford a reasonable opportunity to prepare legal
documents. Such access serves important rehabilitative goals and ensures
effective procedures for raising and resolving complaints about institution
practices and policies.
(2) ACCESS
TO COURTS. Inmates shall have access to courts and administrative agencies.
Inmates' decisions to seek judicial or administrative relief shall not
adversely affect their program, security classification or assignment to an
institution.
(3) ACCESS TO LEGAL
MATERIALS. Each institution, except correctional centers and the Wisconsin
resource center, shall maintain a law library and make legal materials
available to inmates at reasonable times and for reasonable periods. Special
provisions shall be made to provide access to legal materials for inmates with
a special legal need and for inmates with a special need, such as illiteracy.
The department may employ the use of current technology in providing access to
legal materials.
(4) ACCESS TO
LEGAL ASSISTANCE. The department shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that
adequate legal services are available to indigent inmates. These legal services
need not be provided directly by the department, but may be provided by outside
agencies. The legal services by these agencies may include services provided by
lawyers, law students and aides supervised by lawyers and
paraprofessionals.
(5) INMATE TO
INMATE LEGAL SERVICES. Inmates may provide legal services to other inmates
except that institutions may regulate the time and place of such legal
services. Compensation of any kind for the provisions of such inmate to inmate
legal services is prohibited. The department is not responsible for legal
materials not provided by the department that are given to other
inmates.
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