Plans For New Jail To Include Community-Based Treatment

After almost a decade of rancorous debate over plans to replace the run-down Oʻahu Community Correctional Center, some of the key players have apparently found common ground: They seem to want community treatment beds as much as they want new jail cells.

The quarrel over OCCC is one of the longest-running stalemates in Hawaiʻi, a messy history of foot-dragging by state government and protests by criminal justice reformers…

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