Halawa Correctional News Today

The Navy has begun tank ventilation and air quality monitoring at the Red Hill fuel storage facility.

Christopher Vaefaga was found unconscious and unresponsive in his cell in a module used to house gang members.

The Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission — a necessary, independent body tasked with overseeing Hawaii’s troubled prisons and jails — was hit with two body blows in recent weeks.

The state is appealing a Hawaii County circuit judge’s dismissal of the June 2022 indictment against Steven Ray Simpson in the 1978 slaying of 26-year-old Valerie Ann Warshay, a California visitor, in Kalapana.

The Medical Examiner’s Office has not released the person’s identification, nor the cause of death.

Prisoners often face an uphill battle to complete drug and behavioral programs required by the parole board.

For more than three decades, the state has been operating an unpermitted, underground storage tank -- right next to Red Hill.

A resident called the department and reported seeing children playing with the reptile May 15.

A man who escaped from a jail in Waiawa has been recaptured after more than a week on the run.

A man who escaped from a jail in Waiawa has been recaptured after more than a week on the run.