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Hawai'i: - Puunene prison faces opposition

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

To read the paper "Smart Justice: How Hawai'i Can Have Few Inmates and Safer Communities" By the Community Alliance on Prisons. July 2010. Go to: http://realcostofprisons.org/materials/Smart_Justice.pdf "The 843-inmate, minimum- and medium-security jail would more than double the capacity of the current jail in Wailuku." http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/542326/Prison-in-Puunene-face s-opposition.html Prison in Puunene faces opposition October 30, 2010 | Duke Aiona's comments (The Maui News, Oct. 22) are contradictory. He said that he will support the Puunene prison project, yet he also said that his approval of every project depends on how much "push back" he receives from the public. I attended the Maui public meeting on the proposed prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 31, 2010 (boomark / email).