Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1121 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure adequate separation between pretrial detainees and convicted inmates in correctional facilities on the island of Maui.

The Community Alliance on Prisons submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Public Safety submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee finds that separating pretrial detainees from convicted inmates in a manner that does not jeopardize safety or security of the correctional facility is justified because pretrial detainees are entitled to a presumption of innocence before trial, and the intermingling of pretrial detainees with convicted inmates presents increased liability for the Department of Public Safety.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1121 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.