NCJ Number
89208
Date Published
1982
Length
32 pages
Annotation
Hawaii should take both immediate and long-range actions to relieve overcrowding in its prisons.
Abstract
An immediate measure would be to place certain prisoners who require low security, have intermittent sentences, or are not career criminals in parole, halfway houses, community service programs, or other types of alternative sentences. Over the long term, actions might include building more facilities and bed spaces, developing halfway houses and short-term residential facilities for nonviolent offenders who are not escape risks, developing community service restitution and other forms of restitution, and enacting statutory amendments to mandatory sentences. Providing alternative sentencing to persons with intermittent sentences would have little impact on the problem of overcrowding, except in the County of Hawaii. Hawaii should use the community service restitution program, rather than intermittent sentences, jail as a condition of probation, or short terms of incarceration for misdemeanants. Sixteen data tables are provided. For individual articles on these issues, see NCJ 89209-10.