REPORT TITLE: 
Female parity in corrections


DESCRIPTION:
Provides for female parity in corrections.  Appropriates funds.
(HB1847 HD2)


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 2
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                     A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The Hawaii Revised Statutes is amended by adding
 
 2 a new chapter to be appropriately designated and to read as
 
 3 follows:
 
 4                             "CHAPTER
 
 5                    PARITY FOR FEMALE OFFENDERS
 
 6      §  -1  Female prisoners; parity programs.  Adult women
 
 7 charged with or convicted of crimes, and juvenile females,
 
 8 adjudicated for an offense that would be a crime if committed by
 
 9 an adult or who are adjudicated delinquent, shall be provided a
 
10 range and quality of programming appropriate to the profile and
 
11 needs of the female offender and equivalent to programming
 
12 offered male persons convicted of crimes or delinquencies.
 
13 Programs for female offenders shall be based upon psychosocial
 
14 developmental needs of female offenders, as well as other
 
15 appropriate factors.
 
16      §  -2  Model programs.  Within the limits of money
 
17 appropriated, the director of public safety shall provide model
 
18 programs for female offenders that respond to statewide needs and
 
19 geographical areas and shall award grants for the programs.  The
 
20 programs shall:
 

 
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 1      (1)  Provide a comprehensive continuum of care that
 
 2           addresses gender specific needs;
 
 3      (2)  Respond in a rehabilitative way to the type of offenses
 
 4           female offenders generally commit, addressing pathways
 
 5           to crime;
 
 6      (3)  Respond to the problems of female offenders with
 
 7           dependent children;
 
 8      (4)  Respond to the importance of developing independent
 
 9           living skills;
 
10      (5)  Assist female offenders to overcome their own extreme
 
11           degree of dependency, learning strong and healthy
 
12           relationships without losing self-esteem; and
 
13      (6)  Prepare to offer technical assistance and training
 
14           toward the implementation of other similar programs. 
 
15      §  -3 Creation of advisory council.  (a)  The director of
 
16 public safety shall appoint an advisory council on the adult and
 
17 juvenile female offender in correctional facilities.  The
 
18 advisory council shall have a maximum of twenty members,
 
19 including the executive director of the office of youth services,
 
20 and shall reflect a statewide geographical representation.  The
 
21 director of public safety shall appoint members to the advisory
 
22 council, and the advisory council shall continue until it is
 
23 terminated by the director of public safety.
 

 
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 1      (b)  The advisory council shall:
 
 2      (1)  Develop a plan to increase interagency cooperation to
 
 3           address the needs unique to female offenders;
 
 4      (2)  Recommend programming needs to the department of public
 
 5           safety and the office of youth services; and
 
 6      (3)  Identify other issues related to the appropriate
 
 7           programming of the adult and juvenile female offender.
 
 8      §  -4 Planning grant.  To assist the advisory council to
 
 9 develop a plan to increase interagency cooperation and identify
 
10 programming and other needs of the adult and juvenile female
 
11 offender, the director of public safety shall make a planning
 
12 grant available from funds appropriated by the legislature
 
13 specifically for that purpose.
 
14      §   -5   Duties of the director of public safety.  The
 
15 director of public safety shall:
 
16      (1)  Review all plans for programs for female offenders;
 
17      (2)  Review planning proposals from the advisory council and
 
18           award planning grants;
 
19      (3)  Appoint the members of the advisory council created
 
20           under this chapter and provide staff and other
 
21           administrative services to the advisory council; and
 
22      (4)  Monitor the planning grant expenditures of the advisory
 
23           council.
 

 
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 1      §   -6  Female offenders.  The director of public safety
 
 2 shall collaborate with the departments of human services, health,
 
 3 labor and industrial relations, and education, as well as with
 
 4 representatives of the private sector to develop a comprehensive
 
 5 continuum of care to address the gender-specific needs of female
 
 6 offenders."
 
 7      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
 8 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1 or so much thereof
 
 9 as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001 to carry out the
 
10 purposes of this Act.
 
11      The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of
 
12 public safety.
 
13      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval,
 
14 except that section 2 shall take effect on July 1, 2000.