The settlement calls for a $600,000 payment to the estate of Brian Kimo O’Gorman after he suffered heart failure while withdrawing from methadone.

Officials say the new facility is long overdue so that they can focus on rehabilitating inmates.

Lawmakers have made multiple efforts to improve the process of getting incarcerated people the identification they need to access basic services, but little has changed.

Advocates say we’re the only state without a law requiring release of dying inmates in some circumstances, and will press the Legislature to pass one.

Coordinator Christin Johnson and Chair Mark Patterson discuss funding challenges, staffing shortages, safety issues, investigations and rehabilitation at the state’s prisons and jails.

A lawyer for Kulani Correctional Facility Warden Ruth Forbes says the state dragged the case out, which will cost taxpayers big money.

Six legal claims are pending over people who killed themselves behind bars, with more to come.

Psychiatrists who inspected state facilities cited problems ranging from overuse of pepper spray to intentionally harsh conditions on suicide watch.

Current and former inmates testified that the gang ruled an OCCC module, but their accounts of the 2023 killing failed to convince a jury.

Raita Fukusaku’s lawyer alleges his client was “targeted for assassination” by the prison gang Murder Inc.