STAND. COM. REP. NO 51

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 562

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 562 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the establishment and implementation of a residential re-entry facility and day reporting program for criminal offenders, including offenders in the work furlough program.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition and two individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Public Safety and Community Alliance on Prisons.

 

     Your Committee finds that the State has an extensive problem with recidivism and prison capacity.  Re-entry programs house offenders in transitional environments while they learn to reengage with the community and learn how to confront the many obstacles in their path to successful reintegration.  To alleviate the State's problems with recidivism and to meet the needs of adult offenders, this measure appropriates funds for the Department of Public Safety to establish and implement a residential re-entry facility and day reporting program for criminal offenders, including offenders in the work furlough program.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 562 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair