Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Monday, December 9, 2024 76° Today's Paper


Hawaii News

Prison officials ordered to accommodate Native Hawaiian religion

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / MAY 2018

Native Hawaiians make up about 40 percent of the prison population in Hawaii while representing just 21 percent of the general population. The state Department of Public Safety violated federal law when it ignored a Halawa Correctional Facility inmate’s requests to engage in certain Native Hawaiian religious practices, according to a court ruling.