Justice Dep’t Recognizes Hawaii Victim Compensation Executive Director

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From a press release Monday (May 13):

The U.S. Department of Justice has recognized Hawaii Crime Victim Compensation Commission Executive Director Pamela Ferguson-Brey with the Crime Victims’ Financial Restoration Award. Attorney General Eric Holder presented the award to Ferguson-Brey during the National Crime Victims’ Rights Week awards ceremony on April 24 in Washington, D.C. 

Ferguson-Brey, working in conjunction with Gov. Neil Abercrombie, Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald, legislators, community stakeholders, and the Council of State Governments, ensured that the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) in Hawaii included a victim service component. 

The addition of that component resulted in a standardized framework for offenders to pay restitution to crime victims. Services for victims were improved by funding 22 new advocate positions, 15 of which are for county-based victim advocates, two for a corrections-based victim service program, and five for a restitution accountability program in the commission. …  

Read Civil Beat’s recent JRI story Hawaii Prison Population Drops 5 Percent.

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