Instead of committing Hawaiʻi to a future of continued mass incarceration, we can invest back into our communities and restore people who do harm to being functioning members of society. Doing so will make us all safer and healthier.

And the primary reason is because most jailed people cannot afford to post bail.

Inside the governor's supplemental budget proposal are requests for money meant to crack down on the houseless and to explore private prison options

The mayor implies that Speaker Saiki’s letter regarding simultaneous execution of these projects was misleading to the public.

With Honolulu’s Rail project just recently bailed out by the state and the city's history of mismanaging it, Speaker Saiki thinks the city should focus on getting its flagship project under control before starting on new ones.