Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2943 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to hire monitors for out-of-state correctional facilities that house Hawaii inmates.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Public Safety, A Woman's Voice International, and the Community Alliance on Prisons. Three individuals also submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Public Safety has reported that as of June 2005, it has maintained a total of 1,730 inmates in four states other than Hawaii at a cost of $33,179,292.95 and is requesting $12,133,586 in its supplemental budget request to house an additional 701 inmates.

Your Committee amended this measure to incorporate the exact cost of housing the 1,730 inmates in out-of-state facilities and the number of inmates anticipated to be sent to mainland facilities in the future, as well as the exact amount of money being requested by the Department of Public Safety for the transfer of these additional inmates.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2943, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2943, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.