Hawaii Revised Statutes 352. Hawaii Youth Correctional Facilities

• 352-1 Definitions.
  In this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Department" means the department of human services; provided that the powers, duties, and functions relating...
• 352-2 Repealed.
  L 1985, c 156, §2.
• 352-2.1 Purpose.
  (a) This chapter creates within the department of human services, and to be placed within the office of youth services under the supervision of...
• 352-3 Contracting With Private Agencies for Residential Youth Facilities.
  The department may contract with private agencies to provide residential youth facilities. [L 1980, c 303, pt of §8(1)]
• 352-4 Rules and Regulations.
  The director may adopt rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The rules and regulations shall be approved by the...
• 352-5 Staff Standards and Training.
  The director shall establish written standards of conduct and operation to govern each staff member during working hours. New staff members shall undergo initial...
• 352-5.5 Criminal History Record Checks.
  (a) The department shall develop standards to ensure the reputable and responsible characters of staff members of the Hawaii youth correctional facility which shall...
• 352-6 Appropriation Made Out of General Revenues.
  All appropriations for the director and for facilities under the control of the director shall be made from and out of any available moneys...
• 352-7 Records.
  The director shall establish a record of all facts relating to the admission, discharge, escape, death, medical history, programs, and significant occurrences concerning a...
• 352-8 Guardianship and Custody of the Person Committed.
  (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the director shall be the guardian of every youth committed to or received at the Hawaii youth...
• 352-8.5 Reentry Plans; Notification.
  (a) The director or the director's designee shall develop a comprehensive reentry plan for each person committed to the Hawaii youth correctional facilities who...
• 352-9 Period Committed.
  (a) All persons committed to the Hawaii youth correctional facilities shall be committed for the period of their minority or as otherwise ordered by...
• 352-10 Circuit Court Disposition of Offenders Under Eighteen Years.
  The circuit court may commit all offenders under eighteen years of age, duly convicted before the court, to the Hawaii youth correctional facilities in...
• 352-11 Commitments Directed, How.
  All commitments from the family courts of the State shall be directed to the director and may specify the appropriate facility for placement purposes....
• 352-12 Segregation of Committed Persons.
  Persons committed to the youth correctional facilities shall be kept segregated based on considerations including age, maturity level, attitude, behavior, offense committed, commitment period,...
• 352-13 Evaluation, Counseling, Training.
  The director shall provide the opportunity for intelligence and aptitude evaluation, psychological testing and counseling, prevocational and vocational training, and employment counseling to all...
• 352-14 Educational Programs Provided by the Department of Education.
  The department of education shall provide educational programs for those persons committed to the youth correctional facilities. These educational programs shall be adapted to...
• 352-15 Recreational and Program Activities.
  The director shall provide the opportunity for the recreation of those persons committed to the facilities. Work programs for such persons shall be established...
• 352-16 Establishment of Work Release.
  (a) The director, in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the director, may establish a work release plan for persons who are committed...
• 352-17 Compensation in Facilities.
  The director may provide, in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the director, for the payment of compensation, which shall not be considered...
• 352-18 Establishment of Trust Accounts.
  All sums collected pursuant to sections 352-16 and 352-17, and from other authorized sources shall be placed in a bank trust account or federally...
• 352-19 Withdrawals From Accounts.
  (a) The director may permit withdrawals by a committed person from the person's account for the following purposes: (1) Disbursement to the dependents of...
• 352-20 Disposition of Inactive Accounts.
  Where money in an individual person's account on the books of the Hawaii youth correctional facilities has not been claimed by such person or...
• 352-21 Youth Correctional Facilities' Benefit Fund; Disposition of Income.
  The director shall establish a youth correctional facilities' benefit fund for the purpose of the welfare and recreation of the persons committed. The director...
• 352-22 Periodic Reexamination of Status of Persons Committed to the Department.
  The director shall cause to be made periodic reexamination of the status of each person who is committed to the department and who has...
• 352-23 Community Services Program.
  There is established a community services program within the youth correctional facilities which shall coordinate the placement of persons committed to the care of...
• 352-23.5 Gender-Responsive, Community-Based Programs for Female Adjudicated Youth.
  Subject to funding by the legislature, the office of youth services shall develop and make available gender-responsive, community-based programs for female adjudicated youth by providing...
• 352-24 Juvenile Parole Program.
  The director shall establish a program of juvenile parole. The duties of the juvenile parole officer shall include: (1) Assisting in locating appropriate residential...
• 352-25 Furlough, Parole, Discharge.
  (a) The director, for good reasons shown to the director's satisfaction, may furlough or parole any person committed to the director's custody. The director...
• 352-26 Taking Into Custody and Detaining Persons for Violations of Terms and Conditions of Parole and Furlough and Attempted Escape.
  (a) With respect to any person whose legal custody was vested in the director, who has been paroled or furloughed from a youth correctional...
• 352-26.1 Public Disclosure of Information Upon Escape.
  The director, with the concurrence of the police, shall publicly disclose the name, the place of residence, a photograph, and the prior adjudications for...
• 352-27 Harboring or Concealing a Person Away From Custody Assigned by Competent Authority.
  Any person who knowingly and intentionally harbors or conceals a person who was in the custody of a Hawaii youth correctional facility, guardian, employer,...
• 352-28 Repealed.
  L 2011, c 18, §1.
• 352-29 Termination of Director's Right to Supervise Person.
  (a) The authority of the director to supervise the conduct of a person who has been committed to the director's care, unless such authority...
• 352-30 Delegation of Responsibilities.
  The director may delegate any of the director's responsibilities pursuant to this chapter to a representative of the department except those that relate to...
• 352-31 Costs.
  All costs incurred under section 352-28 shall be paid by the director out of any funds appropriated for the Hawaii youth correctional facilities. [L...

Last modified: October 27, 2016