H.C.R. No. 118 - Summary

• Urges the Governor to provide community input opportunities on potential uses for the former Kulani Correctional Facility before determining its future purpose.

• Highlights that Kulani was a minimum security facility with the largest and most successful sex offender treatment program in the nation, maintaining a recidivism rate below 2% since 1988.

• Notes that Hawaii transfers prisoners to out-of-state facilities at a cost exceeding $50,000,000 annually, with Native Hawaiians comprising 41% of those incarcerated outside the state.

• References the Department of Public Safety's 2009 closure announcement and subsequent 2010 transfer of the facility to the Department of Defense for a Youth Challenge Academy Program.

• Requests certified copies be transmitted to the Governor, Director of Public Safety, and Adjutant General.