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Group Wants To Suspend Hawaii’s Effort To Build A New Jail Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Group Wants To Suspend Hawaii’s Effort To Build A New Jail

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An environmental review for replacing the Oahu Community Correctional Center is challenged for not offering alternatives to two proposed sites.
New Visitation Policy For OCCC Inmates Cory Lum/Civil Beat

New Visitation Policy For OCCC Inmates

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The jail will allow more visits but noncontact only. Prison-reform advocates say that’s a mistake.

Hawaii Prison Contractor Executives Were Convicted Of Fraud And Bribery Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Hawaii Prison Contractor Executives Were Convicted Of Fraud And Bribery

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Yet that hasn't stopped a potential $1.3 million contract to study rebuilding OCCC from going to the New Jersey company.
Judge Steve Alm Is Taking His Message Of ‘HOPE’ To DC Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Judge Steve Alm Is Taking His Message Of ‘HOPE’ To DC

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The innovative program to decrease prison time and improve probation is being adopted across the country. But Judge Alm wants to do even more.
Secret Deals: Prison Operator Is Mum On Hawaii Court Cases Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Secret Deals: Prison Operator Is Mum On Hawaii Court Cases

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Hawaii’s prison officials also refuse to disclose issues or costs once lawsuits involving CCA’s Arizona prison have been settled.

CCA Faces Shareholder Revolt Cory Lum/Civil Beat

CCA Faces Shareholder Revolt

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The country’s largest for-profit prison company is accused of making false and misleading statements to its shareholders.

Justice Department Will Stop Using Private Prisons Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Justice Department Will Stop Using Private Prisons

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The federal government’s decision comes a couple of weeks after Hawaii extended its contract with a for-profit prison in Arizona.

Arizona Prison Is Not Reporting Disease Cases To Health Agency Flickr/Greg Gorman

Arizona Prison Is Not Reporting Disease Cases To Health Agency

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There’s no record that Corrections Corporation of America ever told a county health agency about valley fever cases for Hawaii prisoners.

Hawaii Re-Ups With Arizona Prison For $45 Million Per Year Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Hawaii Re-Ups With Arizona Prison For $45 Million Per Year

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The Saguaro Correctional Center currently houses about 1,400 Hawaii prisoners, but that could go up to as many as 1,926.

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