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Hawaii: Over Detention of Prisoners May Be Systemic

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Over Detention Of Inmates May Be Systemic Reported by: Andrew Pereira December 31, 2010 KHOU A local attorney and the Hawaii chapter of the ACLU believe the Department of Public Safety is violating prisoners? constitutional rights by keeping them jailed longer then their sentences require. ?The ACLU has been concerned about over detentions for quite some time,? said Dan Gluck, senior staff attorney for the Hawaii chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. ?We have some very serious concerns about how the facilities are being run and inmates' constitutional rights.? In 2002 the state paid $610,000 to inmates who were jailed past their mandated prison sentences. The ACLU secured damages after filing a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of nine prisoners...continue to full post

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