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Wisconsin · Through 2023-24 Wisconsin Statutes updated through 2025 Wis. Act 247 (published 9-4-26)

Wis. Stat. § 48.208: Criteria for holding a child in a juvenile detention facility.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Chs. 46-58, Charitable, Curative, Reformatory and Penal Institutions and Agencies
  2. Chapter 48 Children's Code
  3. SUBCHAPTER IV HOLDING A CHILD OR AN EXPECTANT MOTHER IN CUSTODY

A child may be held in a juvenile detention facility if the intake worker determines that one of the following conditions applies:

(3) The child consents in writing to being held in order to protect him or her from an imminent physical threat from another and such secure custody is ordered by the judge in a protective order.

(4) Probable cause exists to believe that the child, having been placed in nonsecure custody by an intake worker under s. 48.207 (1) or by the judge or a circuit court commissioner under s. 48.21 (4), has run away or committed a delinquent act and no other suitable alternative exists.

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