REPORT TITLE:
Corrections


DESCRIPTION:
Transfers the duty of providing residential detention for persons
arrested but not yet arraigned from the counties to the community
correctional centers.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL DETENTION OF PREARRAIGNMENT DETAINEES.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the responsibility of
 
 2 providing residential detention for pretrial detainees should be
 
 3 assumed by the community correctional facilities administered by
 
 4 the department of public safety.  The purpose of this Act is to
 
 5 transfer this responsibility from the counties to the community
 
 6 correctional centers under the direction and administration of
 
 7 the director of public safety.
 
 8      SECTION 2.  Section 353-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 9 amended to read as follows:
 
10      "�353-6 Establishment of community correctional centers.
 
11 [(a)] There shall be a community correctional center for each
 
12 county under the direction and administration of the director.
 
13 Any community correctional center may be integrated and operated
 
14 concurrently with any other correctional facility or facilities.
 
15 Each center shall:
 
16      (1)  Provide residential detention for persons who have been
 
17           arrested but not yet arraigned, have been arraigned, or
 
18           have made an initial appearance and who have not been
 
19           admitted to bail, released to appear, or otherwise
 

 
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 1           released;
 
 2      (2)  Provide residential custody and correctional care for
 
 3           committed misdemeanants and for felons committed to
 
 4           indeterminate sentences;
 
 5      (3)  Provide for committed persons, correctional services,
 
 6           including but not limited to, social and psychiatric-
 
 7           psychological evaluation, employment, counseling,
 
 8           social inventory, correctional programming, medical and
 
 9           dental services, and sex abuse education and treatment
 
10           programs for persons convicted of sexual offenses or
 
11           who are otherwise in need of these programs;
 
12      (4)  Provide recreational, educational, and occupational
 
13           training[,] and social adjustment programs for
 
14           committed persons;
 
15      (5)  Provide referrals to community educational, vocational
 
16           training, employment, and work study programs; and
 
17           aftercare, supervisory, and counseling services for
 
18           persons released from centers.
 
19      [(b)  Each county shall provide residential detention for
 
20 persons who are prearraignment detainees.]"
 
21      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
22 New statutory material is underscored.
 

 
 
 
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 1      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
 2 
 
 3                       INTRODUCED BY:  ___________________________