The massive recommendations of a once-a-decade task force are moving ahead, despite concerns that some go too far.

The high costs of prisons may finally lead legislators to look seriously at an alternative to incarceration that’s widely used elsewhere.

The governor is expected to propose the relocation of the Oahu Community Correctional Center in a speech to lawmakers next week. But will the union go along with it?

A Native Hawaiian inmate says state officials are denying his rights to mark Makahiki in the Hawaii Community Correctional Center.

About $15 million would be spent to expand inmate capacity at each of the neighbor island jails.

A recurrence of the bedbug infestation forces a partial closure of the Oahu Community Correctional Center.

Lawmakers approved a pilot program to divert low-risk drug offenders to treatment instead of prison. But, a year later, it’s stuck in bureaucratic limbo.