Alternative Proposals To Alleviate Overcrowding in Hawaii's Correctional Facilities (From Corrections in Hawaii - Studies of Hawaii's Correctional Facilities Population, 1982 - See NCJ-89208)

• NCJ Number: 89210
• Date Published: 1982
• Length: 20 pages
• Corporate Author: Hawaii Intake Service Ctrs
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Report No. 82-003

Annotation

An immediate measure to relieve prison overcrowding in Hawaii would be to place certain prisoners who require low security, have intermittent sentences, or are not career criminals in parole, halfway houses, community service programs, or other types of alternative sentences.

Abstract

Over the long term, actions might include building more facilities and bed spaces, developing halfway houses and short-term residential facilities for nonviolent offenders who are not escape risks, developing such alternatives as community service restitution and other forms of restitution, and enacting statutory amendments to mandatory sentences. However, major impacts on the overcrowding problem cannot occur without major policy changes within criminal justice agencies, cooperation and coordination among criminal justice agencies, and support from the State legislature and the public. The Oahu Community Correctional Center had 648 sentenced felons on June 15, 1982. Most of those sentenced to long-term incarceration had either committed violent crimes or Class A felonies or had numerous arrests and convictions. Only a small number were suitable for alternative sentences. Data tables are supplied.