Proposed Hawaiian Wellness Program Gets Nat’l Notice

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Nearly 100 newspapers, TV and online media from Alabama to Wyoming have picked up a local Associated Press story on a proposal to turn the Big Isle‘s former Kulani prison into a wellness center for incarcerated Native Hawaiians.

The idea is contained in two bills moving through the Hawaii Legislature, a House version and a Senate version. Kat Brady, coordinator for the Community Alliance on Prisons, says Hawaiians represent a disproportionate majority of the state’s 6,000 inmates.

Photo courtesy Ken_Mayer.

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