Bill Text: HI HCR118 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Concurrent Resolution 118 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Kulani Correctional Facility; Public Input

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-16 - (H) Referred to PBM, FIN, referral sheet 39 [HCR118 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2011-HCR118-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	118
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

urging THE PROVISION OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR community input on potential uses for the former kulani correctional FACILITY.

WHEREAS, Kulani Correctional Facility was a minimum security, program-oriented facility that assisted inmates in developing marketable job skills; and

WHEREAS, Kulani Correctional Facility housed the largest sex offender treatment program in the State and the most successful in the nation with a recidivism rate of less than two percent since 1988; and

WHEREAS, the State continues to transfer prisoners to private facilities outside of Hawai�i at a cost in excess of $50,000,000 a year; and

WHEREAS, Native Hawaiians represent the highest percentage of people incarcerated in out-of-state facilities, at forty-one percent according to 2005 statistics from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Public Safety announced the closure of Kulani Correctional Facility in July 2009; and

WHEREAS, in January 2010, the Department of Public Safety executed a Memorandum of Agreement with the state Department of Defense to establish a Youth Challenge Academy Program at the former Kulani Correctional Facility; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature has indicated support for identifying alternative sites in the State to house inmates currently serving their sentences in out-of-state facilities; and

WHEREAS, in his "A New Day in Hawaii" plan, Governor Abercrombie stated his opposition to the practice of sending prisoners out of the State and to the resulting loss of jobs and community service opportunities, and the Administration has indicated a desire to reopen Kulani Correctional Facility; and

WHEREAS, adequate public input was not solicited to determine the best use of Kulani Correctional Facility and surrounding lands prior to the State's decision to transfer the property to the Department of Defense; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2011, the Senate concurring, that the Governor is urged to provide opportunities for community input on potential uses for the former Kulani Correctional Facility; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, Director of Public Safety, and Adjutant General.