Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (formerly Department of Public Safety)

A state senator is highlighting a staffing shortage at a Hawaiʻi prison. Sen. Kurt Fevella showed up at Halawa Correctional Facility unannounced after hearing guards complain of unsafe conditions. He counted 58 guards when there were supposed to be 91.

Department of Public Safety officials grappling with inmate overcrowding amid the coronavirus pandemic are trying something new — retrofitted shipping containers. According to the latest population reports from the Department of Public Safety, the state has 440 more inmates in its custody than its facilities were designed to hold.

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.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Public Safety says certain inmates will get $50 to get vaccinated against COVID-19. More than 2,500 inmates in Hawaiʻi and at an Arizona facility that houses inmates from the state qualify.

Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm hailed a Hawaiʻi Supreme Court ruling Tuesday to deny a motion that could have allowed the automatic release of some defendants awaiting trial.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Conversation's Catherine Cruz, Hawaiʻi Gov. David Ige talks about COVID-19 in prisons and jails, criticism from the tourism industry amid the Delta variant surge, and vaccinating our keiki.

The conditions at Hālawa Correctional Facility and other facilities statewide are currently under investigation as part of a settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit filed by Hawaiʻi inmates.

A U.S. judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement in a lawsuit by Hawaiʻi inmates who allege state officials mishandled the pandemic and failed to protect them from COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons and jails.

While an oversight committee will soon begin examining the conditions in Hawaiʻi's prisons that have led to high rates of COVID-19 among inmates, the union representing some correctional facility workers says employees do not have enough support.

Several Magic Island parkgoers share their thoughts and memories on the 9/11 attacks; the head of the Hawaii Legal Short Term Rental Alliance makes the case against a proposal to better regulate vacation rentals on Oʻahu; the United Public Workers union discusses the high risk of COVID exposure for prison and jail employees; and in our daily Reality Check segment, we check up on the state of evictions across Hawaiʻi.