News Releases

HILO — The Departments of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Labor and Industrial Relations hosted a reintegration resource fair at the Hawaiʻi Community Correctional Center – Hale Nani Facility Thursday, May 15, 2025, to help prepare men and women reenter the...

HONOLULU — The Hālawa Correctional Facility and Chaminade University hosted a graduation ceremony today at the facility Learning Center for nine men who earned their associate of arts degree in Business Administration from Chaminade University. The men comprise the second...

HONOLULU — Oʻahu Community Correctional Center work furlough inmate John Mahaulu was returned to OCCC custody at approximately 12:10 a.m. Sunday, May 4, 2025, after he turned himself in at the Kapolei Police Station Saturday night. State sheriff’s deputies transported...

HONOLULU — At the Women’s Community Correctional Center (WCCC), inmate Aliana Akana excitedly ran toward her four-year-old son and yelled out his name when she spotted him in the facility’s Maunawili Cottage courtyard. The rosy-cheeked child immediately ran toward Akana...

HONOLULU — Oʻahu Community Correctional Center work furlough inmate John Mahaulu failed to return to Module 20 Thursday, May 1, 2025. Mahaulu, 38, left Module 20 on a furlough pass Thursday morning and was supposed to return at 9:30 p.m....

HONOLULU — The Women’s Community Correctional Center (WCCC) hosted a graduation ceremony Thursday, April 24, 2025, at the Hoʻokipa Cottage patio for seven women who earned a certificate after completing the Carpentry Pre-Apprenticeship Program. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation...

HONOLULU — At the Hālawa Correctional Facility (HCF), inmate Mohomiid Wicks stood in front of a pastel-colored balloon archway at an entrance to a courtyard when his 7-year-old son walked in. Once the child spotted Wicks, he yelled “Dad’ in...

HONOLULU — The recreation field at Waiawa Correctional Facility (WCF) was abuzz with joy and laughter as fathers reunited with their children for Easter Keiki Day Sunday, April 6, 2025. WCF hosted the Easter Keiki Day event in collaboration with...

HONOLULU — On a humid Saturday morning, 10 mothers anxiously stood in the Women’s Community Correctional Center (WCCC) Maunawili Cottage courtyard with their eyes fixed on the security entry door, waiting for their children to arrive. Once their keiki entered...

HONOLULU — Laumaka work furlough inmate Jerwan Lalimo was returned to custody at the Oʻahu Community Correctional Center at approximately 10:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29, 2025, after state sheriff’s deputies of the Department of Law Enforcement apprehended him in Waipahu....