The ruling comes in a case brought by Civil Beat to force the state to reveal the names and details of people who die in jail and prison.

The death would be the sixth suicide at the facility in five years. Experts say staffing and a lack of mental health professionals on staff is a major concern.

A new report could be the focus of legislative discussions this coming session on a long touted and often criticized new Oahu jail facility.

A state prisons expert says she was surprised by how bad the conditions are at the Big Island corrections facility.

Oahu Community Correctional Center failed to follow “common sense correctional practices” and placed the 62-year-old prisoner in jeopardy, the lawsuit says.

Other states routinely identify inmates who die in custody, but Hawaii refuses to do so. That prevents the public from learning how most of those inmates died.

The Women’s Community Correctional Center has a long history of allegations of sexual misconduct, and broken cameras make it harder to prove cases.

Corrections officials agree to transfer inmates to a prison on Oahu to ease dangerous overcrowding at the Hawaii Community Correctional Center.

So far 21 prisoners who were on the flight from Arizona have caught the coronavirus.

A top prison official said computer updates weren’t done for the system, and health workers at Hawaii’s jails and prisons lost access to thousands of records.