S.C.R. NO. 143 Summary

• Request Hawaii's congressional delegation to assist the State in negotiating with the federal government for acquisition of the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu, which opened in 2001.

• The Honolulu Federal Detention Center has 1,200 bed capacity but operates below capacity, while Hawaii's state prisons and jails are overcrowded with 3,527 inmates against a designed capacity of 2,491.

• State acquisition would eliminate the estimated $1.5 billion to $2 billion cost of replacing or refurbishing state correctional facilities and allow the current Oahu Community Correctional Center site to be redesignated for non-correctional use.

• Parties to negotiations should consider allowing continued housing of federal pre-trial detainees and federal inmates serving short sentences at the facility under favorable terms to the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a condition of state acquisition.

• Certified copies of the resolution shall be transmitted to Hawaii's congressional delegation, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Director of Public Safety.