Hawaii Department of Public Safety
| Hawaii Department of Public Safety | |
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| Abbreviation | HDPS |
| Agency overview | |
| Employees | 2,263 (as of 2006) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | State of Hawaii, USA |
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| Map of Hawaii Department of Public Safety's jurisdiction. | |
| Size | 10,931 square miles (28,310 km2) |
| Population | 1,283,388 (2007 est.) |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Deputy Sheriffs Narcotics Enforcement Agents |
244 |
| Agency executive | Nolan Espinda, Director |
| Facilities | |
| Prisons | 4 |
| Jails | 4 |
| Website | |
| http://hawaii.gov/psd | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Hawaii Department of Public Safety is a department within the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is headquartered in Room 400 in the 919 Ala Moana Boulevard building in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Department of Public Safety is made up of three divisions.
The Administration Division provides support services that enable the corrections staff to fulfill their responsibilities. Some of these services include training and staff development, fiscal and personnel management, management of the operating budget and capital improvements program budget, procurement, and management information systems and research.
The Corrections Division oversees four prisons. Three of the prisons are located on the island of Oahu and one on the island of Hawaii. They include:
In 1995 the State of Hawaii began contracting with prisons outside of Hawaii to house Hawaiian prisoners. The criteria for sending inmates to private prisons on the mainland include a minimum sentence of 24 months, a lack of pending criminal cases in Hawaii, and a lack of major health and medical issues. Daphne Barbee, an attorney, said that she had clients with cases pending who were sent to the mainland anyway. According to Kevin Dayton of the Honolulu Advertiser, some inmates prefer to stay in the mainland for superior educational programs, drug treatment programs, and other programs that a prisoner would complete before he or she is considered for parole. Other prisoners, particularly those with young children and families, prefer to stay in Hawaii.
The Mainland Section initially contracted with three facilities, one in Kentucky and two in Arizona, to house prisoners sentenced in Hawaii.
The Kentucky prison, Otter Creek Correctional Center, was a designated women's prison run by Corrections Corporation of America. After numerous reports of prison staff sexually abusing inmates, Hawaii brought its prisoners home from the facility in August 2009. CCA closed the facility in 2013.
The state also removed its prisoners from CCA's Red Rock Correctional Center in Arizona in 2014.
As of 2016, about 1,900 male Hawaiian state inmates are held at CCA's Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona. This represents the majority of Hawaii's male inmate population.
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