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HI: Public Safety director wants mainland prisoners home

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Public Safety director wants mainland prisoners home Posted: Jan 18, 2011 3:21 PM EST Updated: Jan 18, 2011 11:58 PM EST By Jim Mendoza HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - "Our department stance is, why are we going to pay somebody else to do our jobs?" said Jodie Maesaki-Hirata, interim director of the State Department of Public Safety. The tough talk to the House Finance Committee was on bringing Hawaii inmates back from the mainland. Gov. Neil Abercrombie promises they will return. But some question the cost. The state pays $62 a day to house an inmate in Arizona versus $137 a day in the Halawa Correctional Facility and other correctional facilities and jails in Hawaii. "That's a huge amount. That's more than double the cost. We need to find out what's involved in those costs and how do we streamline some of those numbers," Rep...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).