Guest Contributor

Isis Patiño Fernandez Usborne

Isis Patiño Fernandez Usborne is a community organizer, recent graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law at U.H. Mānoa, and a member of the Reimagining Public Safety and Hawai’i Community Safety Coalitions. They are the proud child of a single mother who raised them here on O`ahu. 

Read more
Denise Foster Should Not Have Died In Hālawa Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2026

Denise Foster Should Not Have Died In Hālawa

By /

The death of this transgender woman behind bars was completely preventable. It shows why we must reimagine public safety in Hawaiʻi.