STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1088

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 44

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 44, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to better evaluate programs involving the rehabilitation and reentry of inmates into society and other relevant issues relating to correctional facilities, by requiring the Department of Public Safety (PSD) to develop performance indicators, including specified statistics, that accurately reflect progress toward specific goals, including:

 

     (1)  Reducing the rate of recidivism;

         

     (2)  Decreasing prisoner assaults on correctional staff;

 

     (3)  Reducing correctional staff turnover; and

 

     (4)  Improving departmental efficiencies in staffing, budgeting and data management and analysis.

 

     This measure also consolidates into one annual corrections and program report, the reporting requirements imposed by several Acts upon PSD.

 

     PSD, Community Alliance on Prisons, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 44, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair