Bill Text: HI HB969 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii House Bill 969 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Private Prison Performance Audit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB969 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB969-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 158

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2009

RE: H.B. No. 969

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 969 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRIVATE PRISON PERFORMANCE AUDIT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to direct the Auditor to perform an audit of:

(1) Private prisons housing Hawaii prisoners at Red Rock Correctional Center, Saguaro Correctional Center, and Otter Creek Correctional Center in the delivery of services and visitation; and

(2) The Department of Public Safety's (PSD) monitoring of these contracts,

to ensure that Hawaii prisoners serving their sentences in Corrections Corporation of America facilities are receiving appropriate services.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association; Drug Policy Forum; Community Alliance on Prisons; Hepatitis Prevention, Education, Treatment & Support Network of Hawaii Prisoner Reintegration and Family Reunification Program; American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii; and several concerned individuals supported this bill. PSD opposed this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 969 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Legislative Management.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

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FAYE HANOHANO, Chair