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Ending Mass Incarcera.on in Hawai‘i Unless otherwise noted charts and graphs were prepared by the Prison Policy Ini,a,ve and are available at www.prisonpolicy.org 1
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Ending Mass Incarcera.on in Hawai‘i
Unless otherwise noted charts and graphs were prepared by the Prison Policy Ini,a,ve and are available at www.prisonpolicy.org
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Hawaii’s Mass Incarcera.on Problem
Since 1978 Hawaii’s prison and jail popula?on has exploded from 727 to 5,804. This is an eigh2old increase in the prison and jail popula?on. What happened during the last 40 years?
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Mass incarcera.on, a na.onal locally-‐driven trend
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Some context
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How many are in for what?
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How many are in for what?
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Incarcera.on is only a part of the big picture
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Incarcera.on is only a part of the big picture
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Who are we incarcera.ng?
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Who are we incarcera.ng?
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Who are we incarcera.ng?
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Hawai‘i is part of the na.onal trend
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Hawai‘i has a below average incarcera.on rate, but average correc.onal popula.on
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About a quarter are incarcerated in a for-‐profit private prison in Arizona
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INCARCERATED PERSONS BY FACILITY
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It is far too easy to be a felon in Hawai‘i
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Dispropor.onally Na.ve Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
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Hawaii’s prisons and jails are overcrowded and underfunded
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Head Count as of October 31, 2016
Percent Overcrowded
Hawaiʻi Community Correc,onal Center (“HCCC”) 206 361 175% Special Needs Facility (“SNF”) 90 121 134% Halawa Medium Security Facility (“HMSF”) 496 888 179% Kauai Community Correc,onal Center (“KCCC”) 110 187 170% Maui Community Correc,onal Center (“MCCC”) 209 426 204% Oahu Community Correc,onal Center (“OCCC”) 628 1182 188% Women’s Community Correc,onal Center (“WCCC”) 258 298 116% Source: Dep’t of Public Safety, “End of Month Popula,on Reports – 10-‐31-‐2016,” (Oct. 31, 2016), available at hHps://dps.hawaii.gov/wp-‐content/uploads/2016/11/Pop-‐Reports-‐EOM-‐2016-‐10-‐31.pdf.
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Hawaii’s inhumane condi.ons of confinement
• Shelter is woefully inadequate. • Overcrowding causes serious sanita?on problems. • Adequate medical care is missing. • Safety and security are compromised.
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The high cost of an uncons.tu.onal system
• The Department of Public Safety’s FY 2017 budget is $271,109,264 or about $46,710 per prisoner. • The Department of Educa?on’s FY 2017 budget is $1,916,129,119 or about $10,000 per student. • DPS’s budget does not include other costs such as policing, prosecu?on, and the cost of upda?ng correc?onal facili?es, but it includes $47,679,367 to a for-‐profit private prison in Arizona. • Reloca?ng OCCC could cost $650,000,000 or more.
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Causes for Mass Incarcera.on
The incarcera?on rate is the result of only two factors: the number of people in jail and prison and how long incarcerated people stay there. What accounts from Hawaii’s eigh2old increase in its prison popula?on during the last 40 years?
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Violent crime rate is down from height of early 1990s
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Violent crime rate has remained mostly flat
Source: Department of the A\orney General
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Causes for Mass Incarcera.on
Causes include the War on Drugs, mandatory minimum sentences, prolifera?on of repeat offender statutes, longer and more strict parole and proba?on periods, crime classifica?on statutes, bail seang prac?ces, aggressive policing and prosecu?on of crimes too oben with a racial and socio-‐economic bias, and a change in funding priori?es from social programs to the criminal jus?ce system.
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Other states have cut crime while decreasing incarcera.on
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Other states have cut crime while decreasing incarcera.on
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Other states have cut crime while decreasing incarcera.on
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Hawaii’s past efforts at reform have failed at reducing the incarcerated popula.on
Past reforms have failed because: • They have not been comprehensive. • They have not been consistent. • They have not really addressed the two factors driving mass incarcera?on: number of people incarcerated and for how long they are incarcerated.
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Comprehensive, evidence-‐based reform
Cause Change in policy War on Drugs Decriminaliza?on and legaliza?on Mandatory minimum sentences, repeat offender statutes
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Felony threshold Reclassifica?on of crimes Bail seang prac?ces Bail reform Longer and more strict parole and proba?on periods
Parole and proba?on reform
Aggressive and biased policing and prosecu?on
Alterna?ves to incarcera?on
Overfunding of criminal jus?ce system
Funding of social programs
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What can you do?
Support comprehensive criminal jus?ce reform by: • Sign up for our legisla?ve and event alerts • Start a conversa?on and add your voice for sensible laws that keep us safe while reducing people in jail or prison. • See this issue in the news? Write a le\er to the editor or join the conversa?on when this issue appears in online reader forums.
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Mahalo! ACLU of Hawai‘I Founda.on
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