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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
JOSH GREEN, M.D.
GOVERNOR
TOMMY JOHNSON
DIRECTOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 24, 2023
NARCOTICS ENFORCEM... |
| May 10, 2022 | PSD News Release: HALAWA CORRECTIONAL FACILITY WILL RESUME VISITS ON MOTHER’S DAY | HONOLULU – The Halawa Correctional Facility (HCF) is resuming their normal visit schedule for Sunday, May 8th. The medical quarantine was lifted for the units normally scheduled for Sunday visits. Pending test results were negative this mor... |
| May 7, 2022 | Halawa Correctional Facility to resume normal visiting hours for Mother’s Day | The Halawa Correctional Facility will resume its normal visiting schedule on Sunday for Mother’s Day, the state Department of Public Safety has announced.
DPS lifted a medical quarantine for the facility’s units after receiving negative tes... |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Kokua Line: How do I get on standby list for road test? | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Question: Regarding the road test, my daughter tried to get an appointment for when she was home over Christmas break and couldn’t, so she renewed her permit and went ba... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Senator Kurt Fevella seeks halt to vaccine incentive payments to prisoners | STAR-ADVERTISER
Kurt Fevella:
The senator opposes a program that would pay $50 to prisoners to get vaccinated
The state Senate minority leader is seeking an immediate stop to an incentive program that offers $50 payments to inmates in Hawa... |
| Oct 15, 2021 | Hawaii inmates to receive $50 if they get COVID-19 vaccine | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
JAMM AQUINO / 2020
As of mid-September, 66% of Hawaii inmates were fully vaccinated. Above, the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu.
The state Department of P... |
| Sep 21, 2021 | COVID-19 vaccine rates up for Hawaii public safety workers and inmates | Nearly 300 corrections workers chose weekly testing instead of the COVID-19 vaccine as state public safety officials saw a surge in employee and inmate inoculations while working to prevent outbreaks in Hawaii’s jails and prisons.
There wer... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | State seeks innovative ways to finance and build new OCCC | JAMM AQUINO / 2020
Barbed wire and fencing fortify the Oahu Community Correctional Center.
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / 2020
Honolulu police are seen outside Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu.
State officials are asking construction contr... |
| Aug 9, 2020 | 3 more inmates, 2 correction officers test positive for coronavirus at OCCC | STAR-ADVERTISER / MARCH 25
A “No Trespassing” sign is seen on a perimeter fence at Oahu Community Correctional Center.
The state Department of Public Safety said Sunday two additional correction officers at Oahu Community Correctional Cente... |
| Jan 5, 2020 | New law on reporting inmate deaths exposes alleged prison homicide | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
DENNIS ODA / [email protected]
A review of recent news releases issued by the Public Safety department shows the prison system did not publicly announce either the... |
| Jun 30, 2019 | Hawaii inmate data tracking review takes 4 years, costs nearly $1.4M | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Hawaii’s Department of Public Safety hired a company to review its inmate data tracking system and recommend a replacement. Four years and $1.3 million later, the old sy... |
| Sep 27, 2018 | Kokua Line: Opioid patients monitored but database is not public | ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2013
This file photo, shows OxyContin pills.
Question: A friend told me there is a list of everyone who gets opioids. Can the general public get access to that? I would like to look up a caregiver.
Answer: No. Access to H... |
| Dec 17, 2017 | Halt new OCCC plan; focus on reforms | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
DENNIS ODA / [email protected]
One of the guard towers at Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) in Kalihi.
While other states, through bipartisan efforts, are ... |
| Aug 23, 2017 | State unveils vision for Kalihi | CRAIG T. KOJIMA / [email protected]
Kalihi vision committee member April Bautista, left; state Rep. Romy Cachola; Gov. David Ige; Leo Asuncion Jr., director of the state Office of Planning; and state Rep. John Mizuno gathered Tuesd... |
| Jan 19, 2017 | Weigh in on where to put OCCC | Discussions on relocating the Oahu Community Correctional Center might be coming to a neighborhood near you. A couple of open houses on the proposed replacement of OCCC will be held next week at:
>> Wahiawa Recreation Center, at 6:30 ... |
| Sep 8, 2014 | Newswatch | Prison visits canceled on Oahu, Big Island
Visitation at the Women’s Community Correctional Center was canceled Sunday due to staffing shortages.
On Saturday the state Department of Public Safety canceled regularly scheduled visitation at K... |
| May 25, 2014 | Visitation canceled again at OCCC | STAR-ADVERTISER
Inmate visits at Oahu Community Correctional Center have been suspended for about a month because of a guard shortage and the need to rein in overtime
Visitation at Oahu Community Correctional Center has been cancelled for a... |
| Mar 31, 2014 | Newswatch | Visitation canceled at prisons again
Staffing shortages prompted the Department of Public Safety to again cancel visitation at Oahu Community Correctional Center and Halawa Correctional Facility on Sunday.
Visits were also canceled Saturday... |
| Kokua Line: How do I order free COVID-19 tests? | Question: Regarding the free COVID- 19 tests, do we order from the same place as last time they mailed out free tests?
Answer: No. The website to order free test kits from the federal government is COVIDTests.gov. Each U.S. residential hous... |
| State moving forward with plans to expand severely overcrowded neighbor island jails | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
COURTESY OF THE DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY
The aftermath of the March 11 inmate disturbance at Maui Community Correctional Center. The state is finally moving forward with p... |
| Maui’s jail is so understaffed that the state is recruiting guards from other Hawaiian Islands to help | CRAIG T. KOJIMA / [email protected]
“MCCC is extremely short staffed where (adult corrections officers) have been routinely working sixteen hours. Temporary relief is essential.”
Nolan Espinda
Director, state Department of Public S... |
| Newswatch | More sticky, wet weather is in store
Hot, muggy weather with the possibility of thunderstorms is expected to persist through Sunday as the effects of a western trough continue to be felt on Kauai and Oahu.
The two islands were placed under ... |
| Judge orders Public Safety officials to improve COVID safety in Hawaii’s jails and prisons | STAR-ADVERTISER / NOV. 2017
Upper-level holding cells at Hawaii Community Correctional Center in Hilo.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Hawaii’s Department of Public Safety to adhere to its plan for protecting inmates from COVID-19, stres... |