When Ken Lawson was released from federal prison after serving two years for fraudulently obtaining prescription medications, he returned to Hawaiʻi to finish out his sentence in a halfway house. For seven months in 2010, Lawson lived at the Mahoney Hale facility in Kalihi. He took a bus to his job as a research assistant … Continue reading With No Federal Halfway House in Hawaiʻi, Inmates Remain Far From Home