HONOLULU (AP) — The former Kulani correctional facility has been identified as a possible site for the first culture-based wellness center for incarcerated Native Hawaiians.
The state Senate is reviewing proposals to establish a wellness center, or puuhonua, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Proponents say the center will focus on healing rather than punishment, using proven Native Hawaiian cultural practices in substance-abuse rehabilitation and intervention.
According to the Community Alliance on Prisons, Hawaiians represent a disproportionate majority of the state's 6,000 inmates, a number that includes 1,800 serving their sentences on the mainland.
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