Severely mentally ill prisoners in Hawaiʻi are being cared for in dismal understaffed facilities and receive inadequate treatment, according to a pair of outside experts who inspected two jails under a class-action lawsuit settlement. The psychiatrists’ grim report on mental health services in Oʻahu Community Correctional Center and Hālawa Correctional Facility — completed earlier this … Continue reading Hawaiʻi Report Describes ‘Atrocious’ Conditions For Mentally Ill Inmates