Bill Text: HI SR83 | 2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requesting The Task Force Established To Study Effective Incarceration Policies To Improve Hawaii's Correctional System, Also Identify In Its Final Report Sites For A New Correctional Facility That Are Ten Acres Or Less In Size.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-30 - Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. [SR83 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2017-SR83-Amended.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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SENATE RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE TASK FORCE ESTABLISHED TO STUDY EFFECTIVE INCARCERATION POLICIES TO IMPROVE HAWAII'S CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM, ALSO IDENTIFY IN ITS FINAL REPORT SITES FOR A NEW CORRECTIONAL FACILITY THAT ARE TEN ACRES OR LESS IN SIZE.
WHEREAS, the Department of Public Safety proposes to replace the current Oahu Community Correctional Center with a modern facility that broadens its custody and treatment scope and capability with county- and community-based correctional services; and
WHEREAS, eleven parcels of land ten acres or greater in size have been identified as potential development sites for the proposed replacement facility; and
WHEREAS, the environmental impact statement process has begun for the four potential sites short-listed by the Department of Public Safety for the proposed replacement of the Oahu Community Correctional Center; and
WHEREAS, a thirteen-member task force was established by H.C.R. No. 85, H.D. 2, S.D. 1 (H.C.R. No. 85), Regular Session of 2016, to study effective incarceration policies to improve Hawaii's correctional system; and
WHEREAS, members of the task force include public safety officials, former prisoners, and chairpersons of the legislative committees that oversee public safety; and
WHEREAS, the House of Representatives Committee on Public Safety and the Senate Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs held a joint informational briefing on February 23, 2017, to discuss the progress of the task force; and
WHEREAS, the task force suggested at the briefing that current planning for development of new correctional facilities may be premature as the task force is looking at options to significantly reduce the State's inmate population and create a more cost-effective system focusing on rehabilitation rather than punishment; and
WHEREAS, policies the task force is studying to reduce the incarceration rate include providing nonmonetary bail options, increasing substance abuse treatment programs, and improving support systems for parolees to reduce recidivism; and
WHEREAS, the task force is also recommending that the State expand its substance abuse treatment courts, create an academy to train correctional workers, and increase efforts to reduce the incarceration rate of Native Hawaiians; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2017, that the final report of the task force established pursuant to H.C.R. No. 85, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, Regular Session of 2016, which is due no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2018, also identify sites ten acres or less in size, to reflect the concept that modern correctional facilities can be developed vertically; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all state laws, including those laws pertaining to environmental impact statements and environmental assessments, and county ordinances be complied with in the process of studying and developing a new correctional facility; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Governor and Director of Public Safety; provided that the Director of Public Safety is requested to transmit copies of this Concurrent Resolution to the members of the task force created by H.C.R. No. 85, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, Regular Session of 2016.
Department of Public Safety; Oahu Correctional Center; Task Force
