Prospectus Executive Summary–Kawailoa: A Transformative Indigenous Model to End Youth Incarceration
Source: Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi
Date: 2023
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Why Youth Incarceration Fails: An Updated Review of the Evidence
Source: The Sentencing Project
Date: December 2022
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Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report
Source: The Office of the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
Date: May 2022
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Source: The Crime Report
Date: March 17, 2022
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Source: Honolulu Civil Beat
Date: March 16, 2022
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Source: Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
Date: March 17, 2021
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Source: Meda Chesney-Lind and Robert Merce
Date: 2021
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Source: Crime and Justice Institute
Date: October 2017
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Thinking Outside The Bars: Using Hawaiian Traditions And Culturally-Based Healing To Eliminate Racial Disparities Within Hawaiʻi’s Criminal Justice System
Source: William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Date: 2016
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Source: ACLU Hawaiʻi
Date: June 20, 2012
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Source: The Native Hawaiian Justice Task Force
Date: July 10, 2012
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Source: Kamehameha Schools
Date: 2011
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Source: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Date: September 2011
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Source: Justice Policy Institute
Date: September 28, 2010
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Source: Office of Hawaiian Affairs
Date: 2010
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Source: Noenoe K. Silva
Date: 2004
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Source: Office of Hawaiian Affairs
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Voices of Our Community
“This is better than jail…. You can be able to make changes…. I’ve learned personally to start putting my pride aside and start listening more…. It helps me to be able to break the chain. That was something that I thought I would never be able to break.”
– D. Cortez
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