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Halawa Correctional Facility, Oahu

 
State of Hawaii Profits from Exorbitant Cost of Prison Phone Calls [Honolulu Civil Beat] Dec 23, 2015

How Prisons Rip Off and Exploit the Incarcerated [The Real News] Dec 27, 2014

U.S. incarceration rate highest in the world [Wikipedia]

CCA (Hawaii inmates are incarcerated in its for-profit prisons) [Wikipedia]

Prison Legal News Alex Friedmann, supporter of the Brandon Nunuha murder suit against Hawaii State & CCA, is an associate editor

PCI. Anti-private-prison informational website.

Paying for Room & Board in Jail [Warehouse K]

Hawaii ACLU Sues to Get Records Relevant to Prisoner Deaths Apr 11, 2013

Hawaii State and CCA Sued over Prisoner's Death [Hawaii Political Info] May 23, 2012

Police Brutality in LA County Jail, Nation's Largest [YouTube] Apr 15, 2012

Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex [The Rutherford Institute] Apr 10, 2012

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Prison Strip Searches Legal. Even for those with minor traffic infractions. [Hawaii Political Info] (video) Apr 4, 2012

U.S. Prison Population Has Skyrocketed [Hawaii Political Info] (video) Apr 4, 2012

Locking People Up Is Lucrative [Hawaii Political Info] (video) Mar 22, 2012

State Unveils Plan for Hawaii Prisoners to Come Home [Hawaii Reporter] Feb 28, 2012

Death Penalty Sought in Arizona Prison Murder of Hawaii Inmate (Brandon Nunuha murder) [Hawaii Reporter] Feb 16, 2012

CCA Offers to Buy Government-Owned Prisons Nationwide [Hawaii Political Info] Feb 16, 2012

Copy of legal complaint by Hawaii murder victim's family (Brandon Nunuha murder) (pdf) [rbg-law.com] Feb 15, 2012

Family of Hawaii Prisoner Murdered in Arizona Sues (Brandon Nunuha murder) [Hawaii Political Info] Feb 15, 2012

Private Prison Corporation [CCA] Offers Cash In Exchange For State Prisons [Huffington Post] Feb 14, 2012

CCA letter to government officials offering to buy prisons and asking for 90% occupancy rate "assurance" for 20 years or more [Huffington Post] (pdf) (posted Feb 14, 2012)

Private Prisons Spend Millions On Lobbying To Put More People In Jail [Think Progress] Jun 23, 2011

Mainland Private Prisons Should Be Audited: Open Letter to Hawaii Lawmakers - Override Governor's Veto of HB 415 by Alex Friedmann [Hawaii Reporter] Jun 28, 2010

How a Former Prisoner [Alex Friedmann] Took Down a Big Shot from the Private Prison Industry (and Cheney Pal) [Alternet.org] Jun 9, 2009

Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit [The New York Times] Feb 13, 2009

CCA keeps or kept 2 sets of quality assurance audit reports: one for internal purposes, another to show to government agencies [Tennessean.com] (pdf) Feb 24, 2008