STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1356

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 204

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 204 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO FORM A TASK FORCE TO INITIATE THE PLANNING AND DESIGN PROCESS TO DEVELOP A CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT FACILITY TO HOUSE ONE THOUSAND TO ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED INMATES ON UNDEVELOPED HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to help offenders rehabilitate and reenter society, and in turn, save prison space and correctional costs, by requesting the Director of Public Safety to form a task force to initiate the planning and design process to develop a correctional treatment facility to house 1,000 to 1,200 inmates on undeveloped Hawaiian Home Lands on the Big Island.

 

     The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and several concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Community Alliance on Prisons and several concerned individuals offered comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requesting the task force to consider the feasibility of administering and operating a community-based program on undeveloped Hawaiian Home Lands on the Big Island;

     (2)  Changing its title to read:  "REQUESTING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO FORM A TASK FORCE TO INITIATE THE PLANNING AND DESIGN PROCESS TO DEVELOP A CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT FACILITY TO HOUSE ONE THOUSAND TO ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED INMATES ON UNDEVELOPED HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII, AND/OR TO CONSIDER THE FEASIBILITY OF A COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAM AT THAT LOCATION"; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     Your Committees note that the Department of Public Safety did not provide written or oral testimony on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 204, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 204, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

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FAYE HANOHANO, Chair

 

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for HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair