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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Breaking Cycles Symposium updates community on plans to let lots and lots of criminals back out onto the streets
By News Release @ 4:44 PM :: 1028 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

... Approximately 70 people attended the “Breaking Cycles Symposium Update: Re-envisioning a Health, Housing, and Corrections Continuum” at the state Capitol auditorium ....

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Friday, July 21, 2023
Senators Visit OCCC, Halawa
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 2110 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

... The purpose was to bring awareness to initiatives to modernize our public safety facilities, disrupt pathways to prison, and reduce recidivism ....

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Thursday, November 3, 2022
DEA Intercepts 9 lbs of Heroin and Meth Heading for HOPE Probationer
By News Release @ 5:04 AM :: 1956 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Drugs

... Thaxton pled down 2009 pimping and child rape charges to felony assault then came before Judge Steven Alm on HOPE violations 13 times between 2010 and 2015 ....

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Friday, June 10, 2022
Mayors Blangiardi, Roth, Victorino, and Kawakami urge Governor Ige to veto HB 1567
By News Release @ 4:10 PM :: 1778 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

... urging Governor Ige to veto HB 1567 HD1 SD1 CD1, which eliminates the use of monetary bail and requires defendants to be released on their own recognizance for certain nonviolent offenses ....

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Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Audit: 50 Years of UPW Overtime Games at DPS
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 9:40 PM :: 2042 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Labor, Law Enforcement

... Nearly 30 years ago, in our 1992 report, we had raised concerns about the quality of the data used by the department (and nothing has changed since) ....

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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Hawaii Attorney General Joins Suit to Mandate Minimum Wage for Prisoners
By News Release @ 9:50 PM :: 2139 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

...$23.2 million in back pay for just one group of convicts.... 

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Sunday, February 6, 2022
​Hawaii Bill Would End Civil Asset Forfeiture, Opt State Out of Federal Program
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:40 PM :: 4464 Views :: Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement, Police

... The legislation would restrict asset forfeiture to felony cases and would require a criminal conviction before prosecutors could proceed with the process in most cases ....

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Friday, January 1, 2021
A Correctional Center Becomes a Pu'uhonua
By Selected News Articles @ 8:25 PM :: 3011 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, OHA

... Kawailoa Pursues Bill to Engage in Economic Enterprise ....

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Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Hawaii Incarceration Rate Drops 19% due to Steven Alm probation reform
By Selected News Articles @ 9:51 PM :: 3490 Views :: Honolulu County, Justice Reinvestment

...First Circuit Judge Steven Alm’s probation reform pilot program, Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE), which launched in 2004 to reduce recidivism and probation violations....

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Friday, August 14, 2020
ACLU Plan for Hawaii: Massive COVID-Infested Homeless Tent Cities Everywhere -- with no sweeps
By Andrew Walden @ 6:18 PM :: 3734 Views :: Homelessness, Justice Reinvestment, COVID-19

...At 11am today, the Hawaii Supreme Court is hearing a motion from the State Public Defender’s office using COVD as an excuse to order another mass release of criminals from Hawaii’s prisons and jails....

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Thursday, December 20, 2018
Trump, Schatz Team up to Release Thousands of Criminals
By News Release @ 4:02 AM :: 4929 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

...Schatz doesn't want poor innocent criminals to die in prison....

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Wednesday, January 31, 2018
ACLU: Financially Successful Criminals Can Make Bail
By News Release @ 4:48 PM :: 6566 Views :: Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

...ACLU wants lots of unconvicted criminals back out on the streets....

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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Another Day in the Nei: Three Inmates Charged with Escape
By News Release @ 8:25 PM :: 5520 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

...Escape in the Second Degree is a class C felony and carries a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison and a $10,000.00 fine....

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Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Rehabilitation: Jury Rules in Favor of Kauai Warden
By News Release @ 2:06 PM :: 7591 Views :: Kauai County, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

Attorney General Doug Chin said, “The jury verdict exonerates Warden Wagatsuma...."

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Saturday, November 12, 2016
HOPE Probation: Is Swift, Certain, and Fair an Effective Supervision Strategy?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:38 AM :: 4814 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

They found no real difference in outcomes....

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Monday, June 20, 2016
Study: Hawaii Ex-Con Recidivism 48.9%
By News Release @ 8:07 PM :: 6233 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Justice Reinvestment

This study is comprised of 2,464 offenders from the Fiscal Year 2012 cohort....

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016
HOPE Probation: Confronting America’s Drug-Overdose Epidemic
By Selected News Articles @ 1:59 PM :: 7350 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement, Drugs

To illustrate how the carrot-and-stick approach can work, Satel describes the success of Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement program....

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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Academics Defend HOPE Probation
By Selected News Articles @ 2:39 PM :: 5402 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

Swift-certain-fair (SCF) sanctioning improves on conventional practice....

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Hawaii Prison Population Drops 5%
By News Release @ 3:58 PM :: 5689 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Justice Reinvestment

Hawaii, Idaho and Kentucky each imprisoned 5 percent fewer sentenced prisoners at yearend 2013 than at yearend 2012....

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Saturday, September 6, 2014
Is HOPE Probation Creating a False Sense of Hope?
By Selected News Articles @ 8:05 PM :: 6287 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

Every few years, an intervention bursts upon the scene, is heralded as having special crime-reducing powers, and is enthusiastically implemented....

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Study: Hawaii 'Ban the Box' Law Reduces Crime
By News Release @ 3:19 PM :: 8937 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Justice Reinvestment, Labor, Law Enforcement

Statistics show that without income from a paying job an ex-offender often will return to criminal activity....

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Sunday, August 24, 2014
HOPE Probation: Judge Steven Alm Speaks at Heritage Foundation Event
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:03 PM :: 5906 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

State officials in South Dakota and Hawaii have found a creative way to address alcohol use, drug use, and crime....

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Monday, July 28, 2014
Replicating HOPE: Can Others Do It As Well As Hawaii?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:22 AM :: 5071 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

The lead researcher in NIJ's HOPE evaluation discusses efforts to duplicate the swift-and-certain sanctions model on the mainland....

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Monday, June 23, 2014
Heritage Foundation Backs Sentencing Reform Merging ‘Compassion and Common Sense’
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:51 AM :: 5589 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

...bipartisan support for relieving prison overcrowding by reducing sentences for non-violent crimes and putting the savings into community programs....

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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Hawaii: More Mentally Ill in Jails than in State Hospital
By News Release @ 9:55 PM :: 8268 Views :: Health Care, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

The two largest correctional facilities, in Honolulu and Waipahu, both hold more seriously mentally ill individuals than are held at Hawaii State Hospital....

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Kids Doing Time for What's Not a Crime: The Over-Incarceration of Status Offenders
By NCPA @ 3:15 PM :: 4992 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

These types of offenses include truancy, running away from home, incorrigibility, curfew violations, and alcohol and tobacco consumption....

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Monday, March 24, 2014
Heritage Foundation: Program offers HOPE for repeat drug offenders
By Heritage Foundation @ 7:50 PM :: 5522 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

In 2004, Judge Steven Alm had a Howard Beale moment in his Honolulu courtroom....

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Friday, February 28, 2014
Heritage Foundation: Hawaii HOPE Probation Potentially Worthwhile
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:51 PM :: 5131 Views :: Justice Reinvestment
The federal and state governments should look to this program as a potentially valuable criminal justice reform....
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Justice Reinvestment: Hawaii Reduces Prison Population by 4%, Increases Costs by $900K
By News Release @ 3:02 PM :: 5265 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

After the first year of implementation, the state reduced its corrections population 4 percent, averted $2.5 million in costs, and allocated $3.4 million into its reinvestment strategies....

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Roosevelt HS Shooting: Failure of Mental Health Care System
By News Release @ 12:41 PM :: 10638 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care, Justice Reinvestment

...the suspect's mother describes the revolving door of mental health facilities and half-way houses through which her son has passed in the last year....

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Cachola: Revitalize Kalihi by Moving OCCC
By Selected News Articles @ 7:50 PM :: 6538 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

...Abercrombie indicated that his administration issued a Request for Information (RFI) for the rehabilitation of correctional facilities statewide....

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Friday, December 13, 2013
Full Text: Hawaii Juvenile Justice Working Group Report
By News Release @ 8:16 PM :: 6482 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

...the policy recommendations are projected to accelerate current trends, reducing the HYCF average daily population by 60 percent by 2019....

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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
DPS Names Ruth Coller Forbes New Kulani Warden
By News Release @ 9:25 PM :: 6294 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

Ruth has been with the Department of Public Safety since June 1995....

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Friday, November 22, 2013
Lawsuit: Halawa Guard Organized Vicious USO Family Gang Assault
By Andrew Walden @ 10:01 AM :: 10894 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

On February 17, 2013, Plaintiff Lealao was in Module 2B Quad 3 at HCF when he was viciously attacked by numerous violent and/or dangerous inmates from another Quad....

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Thursday, November 21, 2013
Assaults at Hawaii hospital for criminally insane prompts Senate investigation
By Malia Zimmerman @ 9:17 PM :: 7142 Views :: Health Care, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

Assaults on workers at the Hawaii State Hospital are all too common, and taxpayers are picking up the tab for the cost of treatment and workers compensation....

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Locked Up and Shipped Away: Interstate Prisoner Transfer and the Private Prison Industry
By News Release @ 10:12 PM :: 6985 Views :: Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment

...four states - California, Idaho, Vermont, and Hawai'i - collectively ship 10,500  prisoners to for-profit prisons outside their home states.  West Virginia is developing a plan to do the same....

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Abercrombie Administration Solicits Plans for Seven New Prisons
By News Release @ 2:36 AM :: 6479 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

...designing, building, maintaining and financing for the new or expanded facilities described below....

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Friday, September 20, 2013
Hawaii Scores 'C' for Jail Diversion of Mentally Ill
By News Release @ 2:29 PM :: 9178 Views :: Health Care, Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment

Fewer than half the U.S. population lives in communities where the most basic methods of diverting people with severe mental illness from the criminal justice system are being used....

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Friday, September 20, 2013
Navy Yard Shooting: Failure of Mental Health Care System
By Selected News Articles @ 1:25 PM :: 8840 Views :: Health Care, Homelessness, Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment

Approximately half of mass shootings are caused by individuals with untreated severe mental illness....

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Saturday, August 17, 2013
Mental Health: Can Reform Solve Hawaii’s Homeless, Prison and Unfunded Liability Problems?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:02 PM :: 17406 Views :: Health Care, Homelessness, Justice Reinvestment
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Abercrombie: Too Expensive to Put Juvenile Offenders in Custody
By News Release @ 1:37 AM :: 5336 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

A new bipartisan, inter-branch working group will analyze the state’s juvenile justice system and develop data-driven policy recommendations for the 2014 Legislature....

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Monday, May 13, 2013
DoJ Recognizes Hawaii Crime Victim Compensation Director
By News Release @ 10:23 PM :: 6646 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

Attorney General Eric Holder presented the award to Ferguson-Brey during the National Crime Victims’ Rights Week awards ceremony....

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Harvard: HOPE Probation Among Top 25 Innovations in Government
By News Release @ 4:23 PM :: 4818 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

“These Top 25 innovations in government offer real, tangible ways to protect our most disadvantaged citizens, educate the next-generation workforce, and utilize data analytics to enhance government performance.”

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
US Attorney General to Honor Hawaii Victims Rights Advocate
By News Release @ 11:04 PM :: 5194 Views :: Justice Reinvestment
...Holder will present Pamela Joyce Ferguson-Brey with an award during the National Crime Victims' Rights Week awards ceremony on Wednesday, April 24....
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Lemonade From Cuts to State Prison Spending
By Selected News Articles @ 10:01 AM :: 5673 Views :: Justice Reinvestment
Seventeen states managed to reduce recidivism and improve public safety while cutting correction costs, a report from a federal and state partnership revealed Friday....
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Governor Appoints Annelle Amaral to Hawaii Paroling Authority
By News Release @ 8:59 PM :: 9408 Views :: Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

The interim appointment fills a new seat in compliance with Act 139 of the 2012 Legislature, which increased Hawaii Paroling Authority members from three to five.

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Thursday, December 27, 2012
FULL TEXT: Native Hawaiian Justice Task Force Report
By News Release @ 6:12 PM :: 7689 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, OHA

The nine-member Native Hawaiian Justice Task Force today presented its findings and recommendations to the Hawaiʻi Legislature....

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Probation Fees: Will Justice Reinvestment become a Revenue Center for the Judiciary, PSD, and Police?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:16 PM :: 8770 Views :: Justice Reinvestment
...today's New York Times which points out how probation--the key element of Hawaii's Justice Reinvestment initiative--is becoming a revenue center for courts, police, jails, and private companies....
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Justice Reinvestment: Abercrombie Signs Bills as Part of Plan to Release Hundreds of Criminals from Prison
By News Release @ 8:41 PM :: 8153 Views :: Justice Reinvestment
The bills are based on recommendations of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), a data-driven approach Hawai'i is using to reduce corrections spending....
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Legislators Voting to Release 1,100 Criminals on Streets of Hawaii
By Rep Barbara Marumoto @ 9:08 PM :: 7713 Views :: Justice Reinvestment

 This "early release bill" amends current state law in a manner that can affect neighborhood security. With 1100 inmates released in the first 3 years of the program, there will be some recidivism, some crimes and many victims....

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