Isle inmates freed due to COVID commit crimes
Nearly 6 out of 10 people released early from Hawaii jails and prisons early last year over COVID-19 concerns have been charged with more offenses, a new study shows.
The local Criminal Justice Research Institute looked at the emergency releases in April of 108 individuals and found that 58%, or 63 people, had been charged with one or more new offenses in the past nine months.
In all, those 63 people were charged with 417 counts of law-breaking.
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/01/15/hawaii-news/isle-inmates-freed-due-to-covid-commit-crimes/
