Bill Text: HI SCR6 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Community Placement Programs; Non-Violent Female Offenders

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-16 - (H) Referred to PBM, FIN, referral sheet 66 [SCR6 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR6-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3398

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 6

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 6, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO REINVEST FUNDS ORIGINALLY INTENDED FOR INCARCERATION INTO STRUCTURED COMMUNITY PLACEMENT PROGRAMS FOR ELIGIBLE NON-VIOLENT FEMALE OFFENDERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Public Safety to reinvest funds originally intended for incarceration into structured community placement programs for eligible non-violent female offenders.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Community Alliance on Prisons; and two individuals.  Written comments were also submitted by the Department of Public Safety.

 

     Your Committee finds that structured community placement programs offer more effective treatment for offenders seeking to break the cycle of substance abuse, crime, and incarceration.  Your Committee also finds that transferring funds used for incarceration to a structured community placement program will generate a savings of $31,775 per year for every ten eligible non-violent female offenders.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 6, S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair