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The murder of 6-year-old Isabella Kalua of Waimānalo last year shed light on the need for child welfare reform. The House Committee on Health, Human Services, and Homelessness passed a bill that would provide more protection for adopted children by allowing for more check in visits from the state.
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Hawaiʻi will have a new community program next year to help those who have been incarcerated reenter society. Beyond Guilt Hawai‘i will open at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
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WASHINGTON — For a moment, Congress had a chance to act on a policing overhaul, mobilized by a national trauma and overwhelming public support. Those…
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In December, President Trump signed the First Step Act into law. The bipartisan legislation was the first major reform to the federal criminal justice…
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Diversion programs are an alternative to incarceration. The idea is to divert people away from prisons and into treatment programs. They’re being used in…
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Statewide, almost half of the detainees in our jails are accused but not convicted, many because they cannot afford bail. That’s according to a new study…
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The state’s plan to tackle overcrowding at Hawai?i’s largest correctional facility is receiving pushback. A proposal to replace the aging O‘ahu Community…
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Hawaii's Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments in a Hawaii Island land use case. But in an unusual twist, rather than the attorneys coming to the…
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The man who’s believed to be the world’s longest serving death row inmate was freed this week. It’s a case in Japan that goes back nearly fifty years…and…
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Hawaii Island's judiciary has several specialized courts in addition to the standard court system. That includes teen court and both adult and juvenile…