The ACLU of Hawaiʻi is demanding “swift action” to deal with violence in the state correctional system after an inmate at the Oʻahu Community Correctional Center was killed in an assault by a cellmate.
Eric Scotton’s death early Wednesday appears to be the third homicide in the Hawaiʻi prison system in the past year, an unusually large number for any single year.
According to two sources, Scotton, 33, was being held with two other inmates in a cell designed for one or two inmates in a portion of the jail that is used to house mentally ill prisoners…