HONOLULU — Staff and volunteers at the Waiawa Correctional Facility (WCF) transformed the facility pavilion into a family-friendly environment with pastel-colored banners and large inflatable bunnies for a special Easter Keiki Day event. Nine incarcerated fathers reunited with their children...

ʻAIEA, Hawaiʻi — The Hālawa Correctional Facility (HCF) hosted a housing resource fair Thursday, March 19, 2026, where over a dozen agencies and nonprofit organizations provided information to inmates on housing and other support services to ensure successful reintegration upon...

KAILUA, Hawaiʻi — On a Wednesday afternoon, inmate Sherri Ann Johnston softly stroked the head of an orphaned kitten as she held the young feline in her arms against her chest at the Women’s Community Correctional Center (WCCC). Johnston is...

WAIAWA, HI — The Waiawa Correctional Facility (WCF) hosted a graduation ceremony Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, for 11 men who completed the Carpentry Pre-Apprenticeship Program. The completion of the six-week pre-apprenticeship program provides participants with direct entry into the Hawaiʻi...

KAILUA — The Women’s Community Correctional Center (WCCC) hosted a graduation ceremony Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, for 10 inmates who completed the Windward Community College’s (WCC) Mental Health Technician Program. “It’s an overwhelming sense of pride to have accomplished something...

HONOLULU — The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) and its community partners recognized three women — two inmates from the Women’s Community Correctional Center (WCCC) and a third woman who was recently released from the facility —for completing a...

‘AIEA, Hawai’i — The Hālawa Correctional Facility (HCF) hosted a commencement ceremony Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, for inmate Temauraʻi Border who earned an associate of arts degree in liberal arts from Windward Community College (WCC). Border, 27, is the first...

HONOLULU — On a rainy Sunday morning at the Waiawa Correctional Facility, the eight-year-old son of inmate Deonimar Dacanay ran toward his father as soon as he walked into the Christmas-decorated Quonset hut. The child tiptoed as he wrapped his...

HONOLULU — The O’ahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) Laumaka Work Furlough Center hosted its first ever career fair for over 20 work furlough inmates Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, to help them prepare for reintegration into the community. The facility collaborated...

HONOLULU — The Women’s Community Correctional Center (WCCC) hosted a graduation ceremony Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, for five women who earned their GED from the Department of Education’s McKinley Community School for Adults (MCSA), as well as for six women...