Wisconsin. Division of Corrections

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Chapter 435, Laws of 1939 created a new State Dept. of Public Welfare (WIHV85-A488) with a Division of Corrections and transferred to that division the functions of the former Board of Control (WIHV85-A2106) relating to the administration of the state's penal institutions. With the reorganization act of 1967, the Division of Corrections was placed in the new Dept. of Health and Social Services (WIHV85-A674). The Division was abolished on January 1, 1990, and its responsibilities for adult offenders were transferred to a new Dept. of Corrections (WIHV91-A4) and for juvenile offenders to the Division of Youth Services in the Dept. of Health and Social Services.

The Division of Corrections administered the state's penal institutions to protect the public from criminal activity and to supervise, rehabilitate, and aid in the reintegration of adult and juvenile offenders committed to the Division by the courts. In its treatment of offenders the Division used probation and parole, individualized institutional programs, social and clinical services, and evaluative and developmental research.

From the description of Agency history record. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145776609
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creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Institutionalized adult case files, 1955-1967. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Dept. of Corrections. Institution photographs, 1917-1987, 1996. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. T-number assignment log, 1966-1991. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Juvenile case files, 1955-1967. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Psychiatric Field Service case files [microform], 1925-1943. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Case files [microform], 1940-1951. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Agency history record. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Case files, 1967-1977. Wisconsin historical society
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Case records of parolees and inmates of correctional institutions [microform], 1943-1950. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. State prison cemetery burial records, 1871-1975. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Dept. of Corrections. Master file cards/court history and movement records, 1921-1993. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Wisconsin State Prison financial reports, 1916-1955. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Dept. of Corrections. Central subject file, 1930-2007. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Wisconsin Home for Women clippings scrapbooks, 1927-1951. Wisconsin historical society
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Wisconsin Home for Women bulletins to staff, 1934-1948 [microform]. Wisconsin historical society
creatorOf Wisconsin. Dept. of Corrections. Legal Counsel's subject files, 1981-1999. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Dept. of Corrections. Administrative rules, 1979-1998. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Foster home licensing and evaluation file, 1949-1969, 1974-1975. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Case files of adults on probation (central office files), 1955-1967, 1978. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Dept. of Corrections. Adult and juvenile case files (central office), 1967-2005. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Wisconsin. Dept. of Corrections. Subject files, Juvenile offender review program, 1990-1993. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
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