Hawaii’s Prison System Confronts ‘A Huge Mental Health Crisis’

Chaylvin Oliveira-Kalama called his family almost every day from Halawa prison, and before he died he told his mother the voices he heard in his head were getting worse. The 30-year-old inmate had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression. Sometimes the voices that only he could hear advised him that if he killed himself, his … Continue reading Hawaii’s Prison System Confronts ‘A Huge Mental Health Crisis’