Crime Statistics - Hawai'i County/Puna

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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge

Chunkster,
Kulani was a minimum security prison, I was told it didn't even have a fence around it. My understanding is that it's more like a camp so would require major upgrades to keep the prisoners from just walking away. Because right now that's possible.

opihkao, you mentioned sex offenders in your post. Do you know who the majority of inmates at Kulani were? Sex offenders. With no fence to keep them in. County priorities.

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Kulani used the isolation as their "fence." They also had one of the more successful programs for keeping sex offenders from reoffending when they got out. That was one of the reasons it made so little sense to close it when Lingle did, the program was never replaced, so now sex offenders serve their time with little or no treatment.

The percentage of cases that go to trial and the conviction rate is jointly the responsibility of the police and the prosecutor's office. The revolving door of light sentences is the fault of our judges, who at times lack any common sense.