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Hawaii/AZ: Auditor blasts Hawaii oversight of CCA Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Auditor blasts Hawaii oversight of private prisons By HERBERT A. SAMPLE - Dec 30, 2010 9:20 AM ET By The Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) ? The state's auditor on Wednesday blasted the Hawaii Department of Public Safety's management of a contract to house prisoners in privately owned Arizona prisons. In a 77-page report, Marion Higa also criticized the financial data about the arrangement the department has provided legislators and the public for using a flawed methodology and containing inaccurate or insufficient figures. "Without clarified guidance by policymakers, the department has no incentive to perform better and will continue to evade accountability by providing unreliable and inaccurate reporting of incarceration costs," Higa wrote in the audit's conclusion...continue to full post

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