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Column: Hawaii’s early inmate release a health success

Title (Dublin Core)

Column: Hawaii’s early inmate release a health success

Description (Dublin Core)

Corrections facilities across the nation has considered releasing inmates early to slow the spread of the corona virus. While the public has had mixed feelings about this idea Hawaii has been successful in creating a process to examine and individually decide on early release for its inmates.
The mainland US has had numerous outbreaks inside of its prisons and jails and Hawaii was trying to prevent this. As the article explains, early release is not only beneficial to the inmates and employees but also to the larger community. It also touches on the impact systemic racism has had on creating the largest prison population in the world.
prison, jail, bail reform, incarceration, early release, decarceration, Hawaii, systemic racism

Date (Dublin Core)

June 14, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Justin F. Kollar

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Star Advertiser

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Issues
English Conflict
English Public Health & Hospitals

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

incarceration
inmate release
bail reform
prison
jail
systemic racism
Hawaii

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

06/27/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/15/2020
3/15/21
08/02/2022
10/09/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/14/22020

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This item was submitted on June 27, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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