Police are investigating the link between an overdose death at Hawaii Community Correctional Center in Hilo and the arrest last week of a Kona couple on fentanyl charges.
One inmate at the Hawaii Community Correctional Center in Hilo died and another was hospitalized was both were found unresponsive in a cell on Thursday.
A Kona couple arrested at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport are facing additional charges after an inmate at Hawai‘i Community Correctional Center died of a suspected fentanyl overdose.
The newly re-designated state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says that with 95% of incarcerated people who come into the state’s prison system eventually being released, moving away from punitive justice has become a “vital” part of its mission.
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