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Work furlough inmate fails to return to HCCC

COURTESY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
                                Mark Kahalewai

COURTESY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Mark Kahalewai

The state Department of Public Safety is looking for a work furlough inmate who failed to return from furlough to the Hawaii Community Correctional Center’s Hale Nani Reintegration Center.

DPS today said Mark Kahalewai, 65, is serving time for first-degree assault and faces an added escape charge when found. He was scheduled to return to the center at 2 p.m. as part of a work furlough program that offers offenders reintegration services and a work release program for sentenced inmates on Hawaii island.

Kahalewai is described as being 5 feet, 9 inches tall and 185 pounds. He has brown eyes and is bald with a gray goatee or mustache.

His next parole hearing was scheduled for Thursday.

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