The union says not only is the practice unsafe, it also violates a court order. A claim the department declined to comment on ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - An investigation is underway after an inmate at Oahu Community Correctional Center died early ...

A murder investigation is underway after an Oahu Community Correctional Center inmate was found dead in his cell.

The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) responded to the Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) after an apparent cellmate ...

At about 2 a.m. today, Honolulu Police Department officers responded to a report of a death of an inmate at OCCC, according to police. “Upon arrival they were informed that just before 1 a.m ...

The death of OCCC inmate Eric Scotton is apparently the third homicide in the Hawaiʻi correctional system in less than a year ...

According to Attorney General Anne Lopez’s office, former OCCC officer Gilchrist Fernandez ... Fireworks crackdown includes keeping them off planes to Hawaii “We cannot and will not tolerate ...

Gilchrist Fernandez, a former corrections officer at Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu ... have become increasingly more common in Hawaii. Contraband explosives rock neighborhoods ...

In 2022, Fernandez had nearly 95 pounds (43 kilograms) of aerial fireworks mailed to "the very correctional facility that he had a duty to secure,” Lopez said. The case against Fernandez isn't linked ...