Bill Text: HI SB1358 | 2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Kulani Correctional Facility; Reopening
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-28 - (S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 2:30PM in conference room 312. [SB1358 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2011-SB1358-Amended.html
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The Kulani correctional facility closed on November 20, 2009, and was transferred to the state department of defense. The incarcerated population of approximately one hundred twenty at the Kulani correctional facility were transferred to the Halawa correctional facility, to the federal detention center in Honolulu, and to mainland prisons. The Kulani correctional facility specialized in providing sex offender treatment, which the department of public safety describes as being one of the most successful programs in the country.
The legislature finds that Hawaii's incarcerated persons who serve their incarceration sentence in Hawaii have more potential for rehabilitation when they can live in familiar surroundings and be close to relatives. The legislature further finds that the sex offender treatment services at the Kulani correctional facility were among the finest in the country. The legislature further finds that consideration of the State's financial costs of incarceration on the mainland, rather than incarceration in Hawaii, is outweighed by the rehabilitation success of persons incarceration in Hawaii. Successful rehabilitation eventually results in lower recidivism and lower costs.
The purpose of this Act is to require the department of public safety to make plans to reopen the Kulani correctional facility.
SECTION 2. (a) No later than December 1, 2011, the department of public safety shall:
(1) Formulate a plan to reopen the Kulani correctional facility; and
(2) Include in that plan an implementation process to transfer back incarcerated persons and to house new individuals at the Kulani correctional facility.
(b) The emphasis of the reopened Kulani correctional facility shall be on providing sex offender treatment rehabilitation services.
(c) The state department of defense shall cooperate with the department of public safety to transfer back the Kulani correctional facility to the department of public safety.
(d) The department of public safety shall submit its plan and any related findings and recommendations to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2012.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Kulani Correctional Facility; Reopening
Description:
Requires the department of public safety to develop a plan to reopen the Kulani correctional facility, implement transfers, and house newly sentenced individuals by 12/1/2011. Report to 2012 legislature. (SD1)
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