Posted on 7:31 am, Tuesday, January 26, 2010. Tags: hccc, kulani correctional facility, union
This will be a peaceful demonstration and we are encouraging our families to come, because these are the people who are the ones ultimately affected. Our goal is to allow our voices to be heard. We all understand that as a State everyone must make sacrifices, but we are pleading that we deserve to be […]
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Posted in Business
Posted on 6:34 pm, Friday, September 25, 2009. Tags: kulani correctional facility, Youth Challenge Academy
Hawai‘i’s unprecedented budget shortfall has required the state to streamline its operations and evaluate its core functions. As part of that evaluation, the Department of Public Safety determined the closing of Kulani Correctional Facility on the Big Island is a cost-effective action that must be undertaken. Because of the facility’s importance to on the Big […]
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Posted in Opinions
Posted on 10:46 pm, Thursday, July 30, 2009. Tags: gov linda lingle, kulani correctional facility, sen. will espero
Sen. Will Espero has written to the governor, urging her to use the facility for women inmates. Espero’s letter appears courtesy of www.hawaiisenatemajority.com: Dear Governor Lingle, I am writing to express my disappointment in the decision to close Kulani Correctional Facility. I know we are facing difficult financial times, but giving up a correctional facility […]
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Posted in News
Posted on 10:30 am, Friday, July 24, 2009. Tags: Hawaii National Guard, kulani correctional facility, Youth Challenge Academy
Kulani Correctional Facility will be closed at the end of October and 76 employees will be losing their jobs. The site will be turned a second campus for the Hawaii Youth Challenge Academy.
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Posted in Featured, Government, News
Posted on 9:50 am, Friday, July 24, 2009. Tags: clayton frank, kulani correctional facility, robert lee
MEDIA RELEASE At 10:15 a.m. today (July 24) Public Safety Director Clayton Frank and State Adjutant General Robert Lee will discuss the future of Kulani Correctional Facility and provide a brief update on the sexual assault allegations at Otter Creek Correctional Facility. . The news conference will be broadcast live on the internet at: www.hawaii.gov/gov
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Posted in Government, News
Posted on 4:49 pm, Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Tags: governor linda lingle, Hawaii County, kulani correctional facility, mayor billy kenoi
MEDIA RELEASE County of Hawai’i Mayor Billy Kenoi today questioned the plan by Gov. Linda Lingle’s administration to lay off the entire staff of Kulani Correctional Facility and close the prison without first discussing that decision with the communities that will be affected. “The plans announced by prison officials to the Kulani staff this week […]
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Posted in Government, News
Posted on 9:29 pm, Saturday, January 17, 2009. Tags: clayton frank, hawaii community correctional center, kulani correctional facility, public safety
MEDIA RELEASE Department of Public Safety Director Clayton Frank, along with Lt. Governor James “Duke” Aiona and Hawaii County officials celebrated the grand opening of a new building which will be used to provide a re-entry program to inmates of the Hawaii Community Correctional Center. The new program building, at the Hale Nani facility […]
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