City & County Jails in Hawaii
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Clicking on any of the Hawaii Counties or Cities below will direct you to a list of all the City Jails, County Jails and Juvenile Detention Centers in that specific County.
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Hawaii jails and prisons are all state facilities
Hawaii has four counties and no county jail. Honolulu, Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai do not run lockups. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation holds people before trial and people serving a sentence. A community correctional center is the jail for that island. A correctional facility is the prison. The same department runs both, and it moves people between them, including by plane.
The four jails are Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu, Hawaii Community Correctional Center in Hilo, Maui Community Correctional Center in Wailuku, and Kauai Community Correctional Center in Lihue. OCCC is the crowded one. The state has planned a replacement for years and has not broken ground. Women do not have a separate island jail. The Women’s Community Correctional Center in Kailua holds women at every stage, from pretrial to a long sentence.
Jails in Hawaii are those four centers. A misdemeanor stays on the island of arrest. A longer felony sentence can leave the island. Halawa Correctional Facility in Aiea is the largest men’s prison. Waiawa, also on Oahu, is minimum security. Kulani Correctional Facility is the minimum-security prison on the Big Island. About 1,400 men who would otherwise be at Halawa are held at Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizona under a state contract. The department was still auditing that contract in 2026. A federal sentence goes to the Bureau of Prisons. FDC Honolulu is the federal detention center.
How many jails are there in Hawaii?
Four community correctional centers, one for each county. An arrest in Hilo or Kona goes to Hawaii CCC. An arrest on Maui, Molokai, or Lanai goes to Maui CCC, with a flight for the smaller islands. An arrest on Kauai goes to Kauai CCC. Everything else on Oahu goes to OCCC, unless the person is a woman, in which case the hold is at WCCC in Kailua. There is no sheriff billing a daily rate. Search the island or the town of the arrest. The listing names the center that island uses.
How many juvenile detention centers are there in Hawaii?
One secure youth facility. The Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility, at 42-470 Kalanianaole Highway in Kailua, is run by the Office of Youth Services inside the Department of Human Services, not by the adult corrections department. It is the state’s lockup for youth the Family Court has ordered into secure custody, whether they are waiting on a hearing or committed. A youth arrested on a neighbor island is flown to Oahu. The facility is secure, and it runs school on site. It is not a county juvenile hall, because Hawaii does not have those.
Search the island of the arrest. The listing still points to Kailua. There is no second youth prison on the Big Island, Maui, or Kauai.
What the first days in a Hawaii correctional center are like
Intake at OCCC or Hilo is a queue: identity, prints, a medical screen, a search, property bagged, one call. The person has not been convicted. The module still runs on counts. The buildings are hot, the uniform does not fit, and the first night is noisy. Withdrawal from alcohol or methamphetamine can start before arraignment. For a family on another island, the harder fact is the flight, not the rule sheet.
Staff who apply the rules the same way to everyone run a quieter module. Uneven enforcement is how contraband moves. OCCC can separate by risk in a way a smaller center cannot. A sentenced man can still be sent to Arizona, and the family finds out after the transfer.
Each facility uses the department’s phone, visit, and deposit rules. Accounts can be shut off. Each Hawaii facility page on this site lists the center for that island, the visit rules, and the way to send money, including for someone held at Saguaro.