NCJ Number
111271
Date Published
1987
Length
15 pages
Annotation
This report presents the legislative background and provisions for two Wisconsin 1987 assembly bills pertaining to restitution conditions and the legal status of child care workers in the Department of Health and Social Services' pilot project to provide child care services to probationers' children.
Abstract
Assembly bill 260 allows courts to order payment of unpaid restitution as a condition of parole for revoked probationers, and it requires the district attorney to obtain information on the victim's pecuniary loss, unless a presentence investigation is ordered. The bill specifies that the victim must demonstrate the amount of losses, and the defendant must demonstrate ability to pay. The court is allowed to establish a schedule for payment of restitution and to order joint and several liability for restitution payment. Most of the revisions to the restitution law 'sunset' on July 1, 1994. Assembly bill 261 specifies that child care workers in the pilot project are State agents and covered by the State's liability program for its officers, employers, and agents. It authorizes the Department of Justice to treat as a State agent any person participating as a child care worker in the pilot project. Appended list of materials of the Special Committee on Community Corrections.