Current through November 25, 2024
Section DOC 309.23 - Food(1) The department shall provide nutritious and quality food for all inmates. Menus shall satisfy generally accepted nutritional standards. The sanitation requirements set by the warden at each institution shall be in writing and shall also be satisfied.(2) Each institution shall make written policies regulating eating outside the dining area. Institutions may forbid taking certain foods into or out of the dining area and living quarters.(3) The menu for each institution shall be posted once a week for the following week. However, menus may be subject to change.(4) Consistent with available resources, inmates who require a modified diet for medical reasons shall be provided with such a modified diet.(5) An inmate may abstain from any foods that violate the inmate's religion. Consistent with available resources, staff shall provide a substitute from other available foods from the menu at that meal. The substitution shall be consistent with sub. (1).Wis. Admin. Code Department of Corrections DOC 309.23
Cr. Register, October, 1981, No. 310, eff. 11-1-81; renum. from DOC 309.37 and am., Register, November, 1997, No. 503, eff. 12-1-97.