The Department of Public Safety has not started on expansion of three jails, a $37.5 million project approved by lawmakers last year.
Hawaii Behind Bars
How Hawaii is managing its troubled prison system, including four prisons and four jails in Hawaii, and a contract private prison in Arizona.
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How Hawaii’s Prisoners Are Ending Up In Facilities All Over The Country
But, citing privacy and security reasons, state prison officials won’t say why prisoners are being transferred or where they have gone.
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ACLU Calls For Federal Probe Of Hawaii Prison Conditions
The complaint alleges overcrowding has led to “systemwide deterioration” at seven prisons and jails.
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Do Hawaii Prisons Overuse Solitary Confinement?
Most of the state’s maximum-custody inmates live in special holding cells for up to 23 hours per day. The policy bucks a national trend.
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Other States Are Shrinking Prison Populations — Why Not Hawaii?
The Justice Reinvestment Initiative approved in 2012 was supposed to be a game-changer in the islands. It hasn’t been.
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Private Prison Operator Sees A Financially Healthy Future
Corrections Corporation of America says rebranding itself as CoreCivic will help its bottom line.
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Hawaii Prison Officials Say It Will Cost $23,000 For Public Records
Eight months after we asked, the state wants big bucks for records pertaining to violence at an Arizona prison.
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Oahu’s Inmates Are Facing Some Seriously ‘Inhumane’ Conditions
The feds stepped in before. Hawaii needs a mix of expanded facilities and a decrease in prisoners to avoid losing control again.
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Hawaii Finds Itself Stuck As Others Abandon For-Profit Prisons
Even as the ground shifts nationally away from private prisons, Hawaii Gov. David Ige said he sees no way it will change here anytime soon.