Report Title:

Public Safety; Oahu Community Correctional Center

 

Description:

Requires a feasibility review regarding the sale of the Oahu community correctional center in order to build a new facility in a different location to accommodate and manage the continued growth of the inmate population.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

4

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to public safety.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  The Oahu community correctional center is the largest prison in the State and is situated on sixteen acres in urban Honolulu.  The Oahu community correctional center has a history of overcrowding and currently houses over fourteen hundred men and women inmates, including pretrial detainees, persons arrested who cannot make bail, or persons being held without bail until their trials.  The Oahu community correctional center is not a functional building to accommodate the size of the current inmate population and was originally constructed to accommodate a much smaller inmate population.  According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Hawaii's prison population has grown from nine hundred eighty-five in 1980, to five thousand four hundred fifty-four in 2002. 

     The purpose of this Act is to review the feasibility of selling the Oahu community correctional center in order to build a new facility in a different location to accommodate and manage the continued growth of the inmate population. 

     SECTION 2.  The department of public safety and the office of planning shall review the public safety properties along the proposed rail transit line, assess the market values of these public safety properties, and consider the sale of the Oahu community correctional center in order to build a new facility.  A status report shall be filed by the department of public safety and the office of planning not later than twenty days of the convening of the 2008 legislature indicating the results and recommendations of the review.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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