Corrections Population Management Commission

The Corrections Population Management Commission monitors Hawaii's correctional population, reviews prison overcrowding conditions, and makes recommendations to the Legislature and Department of Public Safety on strategies to manage the prison population within safe and constitutional limits. It examines alternatives to incarceration, early release criteria, and the fiscal and human costs of incarceration. Hawaii's practice of sending inmates to mainland prisons is a recurring issue in the commission's work.

The commission's recommendations affect criminal sentencing policy, the conditions of confinement for Hawaii inmates, and the fiscal resources the state devotes to corrections. Families of incarcerated individuals, justice reform advocates, and taxpayers all have a stake in the commission's work.