STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1201

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   S.B. No. 603

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred S.B. No. 603, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to create restrictions and guidelines on the use of administrative segregation and disciplinary segregation in correctional facilities.

 

     The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Community Alliance on Prisons, Ho‘omana Pono, LLC., Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice, and many concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Public Safety and United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO opposed this measure.  A concerned individual offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with provisions that require:

 

     (1)  The Department of Public Safety to expand the current environmental impact statement process for potential sites for the Oahu Community Correctional Center relocation; and

 

 

     (2)  The Director of Public Safety to report to the 2018 Legislature on:

 

          (A)  Consideration of alternative sites of 4.5 acres in size or larger as potential sites for the Oahu Community Correctional Center relocation and the results following consultation with the task force created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 85 (2016) and the Corrections Population Management Commission; and

 

          (B)  Solitary confinement, administrative segregation, and disciplinary segregation in Hawaii and Arizona correctional facilities that house Hawaii inmates.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 603, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 603, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

 

 

 

 

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GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair