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Hawaii Institutes Non-Contact Visits at Another Prison to Control Contraband
Loaded on June 1, 2020
by Kevin Bliss
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2020, page 41
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Hawaii.
by Kevin Bliss
Hawaii’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) has now banned contact visits at three of the state’s correctional institutions: Oahu Correctional Community Center (OCCC), Maui Correctional Community Center (MCCC), and Halawa Correctional Facility (HFC).
The only way families and friends of those incarcerated there can see their loved …
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