HI HCR156

Department of Public Safety requested to include sites of 4.5 acres or larger in the environmental impact statement process for relocating the Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC), instead of limiting consideration to sites meeting the 20-acre qualification criteria.

OCCC is overcrowded and houses approximately 1,200 pre-trial detainees, short-term sentenced individuals, probation and parole violators, and pre-release work furlough participants.

Department of Public Safety requested to consult with the task force created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 85 (2016) and the Corrections Population Management Commission regarding facility capacity, design, and relocation sites in light of criminal justice system changes including pre-trial diversion programs and alternatives to incarceration.

Department of Public Safety required to submit a report no less than twenty days before the 2018 Regular Session that includes a list of alternative sites with reasons for inclusion or omission and any proposed legislation addressing the resolution's purposes.

State had spent $1,500,000 of a $4,900,000 planning and design contract as of early 2017, with four potential sites identified: Department of Agriculture Animal Quarantine Facility, Halawa Correctional Facility, Mililani Technology Park Lot 17, and the current OCCC site in Kalihi.