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In 2022, Hawaiʻi Governor David Ige signed House Bill 2171, which became Act 278, re-establishing the Hawaiʻi Department of Public Safety as the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR), which manages eight adult jails and prisons for the state. Their new motto, “He Au Hou,” translates to “a new era,” highlighting a renewed emphasis on rehabilitation and comprehensive support for those in custody.¹ Notably, 86% of Hawaiʻi’s total correctional population demonstrates a need for substance abuse treatment; 20–30% are homeless immediately prior to entering corrections; and 36% identify as Native Hawaiian, a reflection of the underlying health, housing, and social inequities that are root causes of incarceration.² A third of the overall correctional population is housed in the Oʻahu Community Correctional Facility (OCCC), Hawaiʻi’s largest jail, an outdated facility with overcrowding, lack of program space, deteriorating infrastructure, staffing shortages, and the center of ongoing debates over the need for broader justice reform and new models for institutional and community-based care. With planning already underway for the relocation of OCCC, DCR contracted an independent university team spanning architecture, planning, peace studies, public health, social work, law, and Hawaiian Studies to explore alternative models and to collectively re-envision a community-based continuum of care across health, housing, and justice systems.³ This prompted a two-year research, community engagement, planning, and design process that implemented a range of knowledge-sharing, relationship-building, and change-oriented tools to work toward holistic systems redesign. This paper highlights the methods and tools that were developed to facilitate this work.

Volume Editors
Reed Kroloff & Francisco J. Rodríguez-Suárez

ISBN
978-1-944214-52-4