Oʻahu Community Correctional Center

Hawaiʻi lawmakers passed the state budget Wednesday that includes $30 million to complete the planning for a new jail to replace the deteriorating and overpopulated Oʻahu Community Correctional Center.

A former guard has pleaded guilty to mailing illegal aerial fireworks to Hawaiʻi's largest jail in 2022. Gilchrist Fernandez's guilty plea comes as Hawaiʻi authorities grapple with challenges in enforcing existing laws after a deadly New Year's fireworks blast at a Honolulu home. The ex-guard faces up to three months imprisonment at sentencing scheduled for June.

Gov. Josh Green’s new budget requests $30 million to plan the new jail to replace the dilapidated Oʻahu Community Correctional Center. The Department of Corrections began working on plans for the new jail over seven years ago.

The four inmates allegedly killed another inmate at the O‘ahu Community Correctional Center in July 2023.

Hawaiʻi correctional officers say they get less support than inmates for the stressors they experience at jails. That was one of the findings from recent surveys of current and former correctional officers at the Oʻahu Community Correctional Center.

As the state bifurcates the Department of Public Safety into two departments, some of the functions will remain the same, but some operations will transfer into the new Department of Law Enforcement.

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The state Supreme Court yesterday added non-violent felony defendants to the list of inmates eligible for release. The presiding judge in each case has…

The Honolulu City Council has approved a plan to relocate the Oahu Community Correctional Center.The council unanimously approved a permit to move the…

The state reached a major decision-point in its plan to replace the outdated O’ahu Community Correctional Center. HPR’s Wayne Yoshioka reports. Governor…