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Halawa Correctional Facility – Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
99-902 Moanalua Road, Aiea, HI 96701 (map) Phone: (808) 485-5200 Visitation Hotline: (808) 485-3550 Fax: (808) 483-7275 For our policy regarding inmate access to publications, see COR 15.05. For our policy regarding mail, see COR 15.02. - Halawa Medium Security Facility (HMSF) – Visitation Calendar – January 2026 - Halawa Special Needs Facility (HSNF) – Closed for renovation.
https://dcr.hawaii.gov/halawa/
Correctional Institutions Division
What's the difference between a prison and a jail? Click here for more information. Death Notifications. Corrections Population Reports. 2026. Weekly Population ...
https://dcr.hawaii.gov/about/divisions/corrections/Bill Text: HI HB1376 2026 Regular Session Introduced LegiScan
Bill Text: HI HB1376 | 2026 | Regular Session | Introduced Bill Title: Relating To Correctional Facilities. Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5) Status: (Introduced) 2025-12-08 - Carried over to 2026 Regular Session. [HB1376 Detail] Download: Hawaii-2026-HB1376-Introduced.html A BILL FOR AN ACT rELATING TO correctional facilities.
https://legiscan.com/HI/text/HB1376/id/3296800/Hawaii-2026-HB1376-Introduced.html
Federal Detention Center, Honolulu - Wikipedia
The Federal Detention Center, Honolulu (FDC Honolulu) is a federal prison in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. It holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to or during court proceedings in Hawaii Federal District Court, as well as inmates serving brief sentences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Detention_Center,_Honolulu
Tough Choices On Hawaii's Prisons And Jails Lie Ahead, Official Says - Honolulu Civil Beat
Corrections officials need millions of dollars to maintain aging prisons and jails but say the real solution is to build new jails. That would be even more expensive. It has been nearly 40 years since a new prison or jail opened in Hawaii, and the leader of the state’s deteriorating network of correctional facilities says the state must finally make the hard decisions about replacing its rundown old lockups.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2024/10/tough-choices-on-hawaiis-prisons-and-jails-lie-ahead-official-says/
Gov. Green revisits acquiring federal prison building to replace declining OCCC Hawai'i Public Radio
The Honolulu Federal Detention Center could be back on the table to replace the deteriorating and overpopulated Oʻahu Community Correctional Center. Gov. Josh Green has asked the president's administration to consider allowing the state to acquire the underutilized federal prison. “They're only using about 200 of the 900-plus cells there, and it might be a way for us, if they would agree, to move towards a facility that's already built...
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2025-06-05/gov-green-federal-detention-center-could-replace-declining-occc
New report shows concepts for new OCCC and prison system reforms
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Oahu Community Correctional Center was built in 1916, when the focus of jail was incarceration. The concepts for a new facility to replace it lean heavily on something it can’t do as much -- rehabilitation. “What have we learned from a hundred years of punishment?
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/02/08/new-report-shows-concepts-new-occc-prison-system-reforms/
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Prison Policy Initiative Releases Report Emphasizing Need for Decarceration, Not a New Jail to Replace Oahu Community Correctional Center - ACLU of Hawaii
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2025 MEDIA CONTACTS Carrie Ann Shirota, ACLU of Hawaiʻi Policy Director, 808-380-7052 or [email protected] Keke Walker, Reimagining Public Safety Coalition Member, 808-457-0186 or [email protected] Sarah Staudt, Policy & Advocacy Director at Prison Policy Initiative, [email protected] Prison Policy Initiative Releases Report Emphasizing Need for Decarceration, Not a New Jail to Replace O...
https://www.acluhi.org/press-releases/prison-policy-initiative-releases-report-emphasizing-need-decarceration-not-new-jail/
Hawaii's new corrections department aims to give inmates a fresh start
Kacie Yamamoto The Honolulu Star-Advertiser HONOLULU — The newly re-designated state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says that with 95 % of incarcerated people who come into the state’s prison system eventually being released, moving away from punitive justice has become a “vital " part of its mission.
https://www.corrections1.com/treatment/hawaiis-new-corrections-department-aims-to-give-inmates-a-fresh-start
This past session, lawmakers passed a resolution to systematically and incrementally bring individuals incarcerated at CoreCivic's Saguaro Facility in Arizona back to Hawaiʻi. Why is contracting with private prison corporations dangerous for Hawaiʻi residents and harmful for the state? Corporations like CoreCivic and GeoGroup profit off of incarcerating people, and have faced lawsuits and public outroar across the country for their poor treatm...
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Prison Policy Initiative Releases Report Emphasizing Need for Decarceration, Not a New Jail to Replace Oahu Community Correctional Center - ACLU of Hawaii
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2025 MEDIA CONTACTS Carrie Ann Shirota, ACLU of Hawaiʻi Policy Director, 808-380-7052 or [email protected] Keke Walker, Reimagining Public Safety Coalition Member, 808-457-0186 or [email protected] Sarah Staudt, Policy & Advocacy Director at Prison Policy Initiative, [email protected] Prison Policy Initiative Releases Report Emphasizing Need for Decarceration, Not a New Jail to Replace O...
https://www.acluhi.org/press-releases/prison-policy-initiative-releases-report-emphasizing-need-decarceration-not-new-jail/