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Testimony OK @ US Civil Rts Comm Hrg 9.20 Re Disparity of Native Hawaiian Arrests.Prosecution and Imprisonment‏! "USE KULANI PRISON FOR KANAKA MAOLI & HAWAII NATIONALS"

Posted by Pono Kealoha on September 16, 2010 at 3:50pm
Testimony OK @ US Civil Rts Comm Hrg 9.20 Re Disparity of Native Hawaiian Arrests.Prosecution and Imprisonment‏


As information, in 2006, the AHCC passed a resolution calling for the creation of a taskforce to select a suitable site in Hawai'i where an adequate prison can be built. (As a note, we have not been successful in this regard, and in fact, just learned that Kulani prison on Hawaii Island has been closed). In that resolution, we noted that 47% of the prisoners in the State of Hawaii prison systems are men and women of Hawaiian ancestry. Consider that the Native Hawaiian population comprises 20% of the state population. Clearly, the statistics then of Hawaiians in state prisons seems unequal.

In any case, this is forwarded for action as you deem appropriate. It is possible that a resolution may be written after the US Civil Rights Committee meeting for consideration at this year's AHCC convention.

Leimomi
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I just heard that testimony WILL BE ALLOWED at this briefing. You have 30 or so days to submit your comments on the racial disparity of the justice system to:

Peter Minarik
Regional Director
Western Regional Office
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
pminarik@usccr.gov
(213) 894-3437
or
Angelica Trevino
Special Assistant to the Director
Western Regional Office
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
atrevino@usccr.gov
(213) 894-3437

THE UNITED STATES COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 14, 2010

HAWAI’I CIVIL RIGHTS PANEL TO HOLD BRIEFING
ON DISPARITIES IN THE ADMINISTRAITON OF JUSTICE

A briefing before the Hawai’i Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights will be held on Monday, September 20, 2010, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Liliha Public Library, 1515 Liliha Street, Honolulu, Hawai’i, 96817. The briefing is open to the public.

The briefing is in follow-up to the Hawai’i Advisory Committee’s determination to examine whether racial and ethnic disparities exist in the administration of justice in the State of Hawai’i, and if so the reasons for the disparities. It is been alleged that native Hawaiians and other racial and ethnic minorities in Hawai’i are disproportionately arrested, prosecuted, and incarcerated.

Over the past several decades, the Commission and its State Advisory Committees have issued a series of studies concerning problems in the administration of justice. The Hawai’i Advisory Committee, however, has never examined the issue in the state.

Representatives from the Honolulu Police Department, the Department of Public Safety, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, and the Hawai’i Parole Authority will brief the Hawai’i Committee in two morning sessions beginning at 10:30 a.m. Persons briefing the Hawai’i Committee in two afternoon sessions beginning at 2:00 p.m. will include: Representative Faye Pua Hanohano, RaeDeen Karasuda, Meda Chesney-Lind, and Kat Brady. In addition, during the afternoon session Nalani Takushi, Keala Hook, and Keola Chan, from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, will present data to the Hawai’i Advisory Committee on arrest and incarceration patterns in the state.

The United States Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan fact-finding agency of the Federal Government. It is directed to appraise federal policies and study matters concerning the denial of equal protection of the laws under the Constitution because of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin. The Commission and its State Advisory Committees make their findings public, and submit their recommendations for changes in federal law and policy to the President and the Congress.

The Chair of the Hawai’i Advisory Committee is Michael Lilly. Other members of the Hawai’i Advisory Committee are: Amefil Agbayani, Robert Alm, William Burgess, Vernon Char, Linda Colburn, Michele Fujimori, H.K. Bruss Keppeler, James Kuroiwa, Carmen Lindsey, Paul Smith, Wayne Tanna, and Jackie Young.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Peter Minarik
Regional Director
Western Regional Office
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
pminarik@usccr.gov
(213) 894-3437
or
Angelica Trevino
Special Assistant to the Director
Western Regional Office
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
atrevino@usccr.gov
(213) 894-3437



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  • Tina matildo botelho September 17, 2010 at 4:27am
    why are we puuting people t o jail when our own nations are at stake , do not need jails we need gods help and compassion for our native people who are men nd woman show them gods love and help them not put them in and not deal with the problems help them just as poka laanui hs doneto help the people and also the state andte churches and the people here in oahu ,when we all work as one we all get the job done. prison overcrowding is no good , it should only be for peopl who are murders not peopleho are on drugs and suicidal and prostitution.
  • Tina matildo botelho September 17, 2010 at 4:22am
    november is when they make there descsion kingdom of hawaii and hawaii kingdom need to stand strong with god.
  • Tina matildo botelho September 17, 2010 at 4:21am
    for example they are two wolves there our for runners pray for thes two wolves are they going for us or against us the know about the national trasures now , and they know about our famili and the native organization of hawaiind the kingdom of hawaii? think about this i wrote to akaka them to stop the kaka bill they say it is in our own intrest fo the hawaiian in the truth of all of this thy promised us onece the word was preache d to all he nations they will return back wht is the true testiomony of us and jeu our lord and savior? will they turn on us and our lord or are they going to help us ? think people read revelations 17:17 . The proceeding of our lord they did this to himand our people in the politicians back ijew days of the roman babylon , now there provision is carried out witht he troops bringing them back november is the next electn to both canadaites .
  • Tina matildo botelho September 17, 2010 at 4:08am
    I do not want no one to be incarcerated this is only how i feel about my cousins situation and how i can be and example to you a in this matter of there proecution which is not fair? al thigs ar not fair in life righteousness of our people gettn aresstedfor stupid reasons and staying in jail an puting our queen and me and our families to persecution is not right and having to say we going to kill you if we say something this is not good when people say these things to us ad make us feel we stupid, you know watis injustice is taking of the lands and tkingdoms and not asking the rightful people first this is a no no. and also selling things that do not belong to them is a federal crime. Can the law be reversed and remanded yes it can. because in the supreme courts of justice, the judge who is behind is with the pope and its president and for them toi make a final deseion they cannot because they will be overiding there own laws . how can people tell us about there own laws if they do not use it for the descretion of good . think about this.
  • Tina matildo botelho September 17, 2010 at 3:54am
    I almost graduating form criminal law and i really enjoy beingin my classes at the remington college two more quarters t go , and to see this happen not only in our state its happening in claifornia too. I have written on a research paper on american law review and discounted lags on judiciary discreatin and two briefings of cnsidered families of mines and trying to help one of my families too in tis matter of him being incarcerated,i want him out no excessive jail times is a no for a abuse case even wen it is a member of your own families ad both do not recognized what have happened when they both weredrinking this is no no. 8 years and my cousin is in a military, and had to get arested in the state county jailof california , laws of abuse should never be more than 4-5unless if it is a murder case with and open 1year or less on good time and bails espeasially or supervised rlased or monitotred. Aperson with ten - to 20 years on a murder case could face this never to readjutto an electric chair , thou shall notkill. california laws are different he faces 10 years and then gives him 8 years , that is too long i do not think this attrney went and do discent and the discreation of the judge based it in a community law as such as a out ward community in his community how they react i california , heyhis from hawaii , hawaii is different compare to people in california and thereway of living. Based on a no creed o bias partisan of color and creed yes it is a constitutional righ not to give a person from hawaii or a different place a detrmination of there color ground iot is to a desision based on there prescedent case this followed up, and yes sm times judges can be racial i have ssen this in the movies.
  • Tina matildo botelho September 17, 2010 at 3:33am
    There is a lot of injustice to alot of people in hawaii, i do not think jails and institution should be fo drug addiction, i am uereHale naau pono can help those people that are of hawaiian ancestry , take one for me and example i with poka laanui burgess them , and i was considered a person with a drug addiction and i was in prison on parole and stayed with there agency for along time until i was brought back to my roots and to the lord too . they havehlped me so much inthis form of matter thati got so intrested about gng back to school a pic of my friend shirley davenport who worked for laanui burgess , helped me get to wh i am at today with te rest of the case managers he has hired they are all good especially there crises team , to deter the people fom prison they need t want the help , ndthey nmeed to do counseling it may take them years just like idid go to aaand na anoymonys and also go to word of life and being around a good support team. I t is who yu hang with maks you become who you really are and i thank god for hale naau pono if was not for them . espeacially my god i would not been able to go ahead and do all the things i am doing today, being independent,and going to remmington college in criminal especially being with an awesome churchibeen with them since 1990s word of life christia center. To deter and to protect recividism and the laws of descent and void ofvagueness issues a United states of constitution with laws that persecute people in the congress is an issue to over ride and to do this is by the grace of the lords hands on a persons situation and prsecution to the tort law of outr queen and families and also watching two wolves behaind and issue that outs stands takaka bill and the forum of our people who are in prison of native ancestry they have rights and miranda rigts are given for a purpose . and to my kanowledge when an attrney doe not do his home work well in different codes inte state and the person has to serve excesve jail time . inheother states is not good , you can over ride this too by talking to the attorneysand the judges themselves who makes the discreation to out come of supervise release or probations . there is always a discent to a case remember this? andthis is what lawyers do not telyou about and they need to tell people there rights and even prosecutions and a ttorneys too because due to this when i wastrying to get my daughter back the a ttorney told me i do not know any thing about the law and are they going to tell us no hey make us do all the work on ourown it is the same as fishing for a fish and yu already have a fish waiting at home.
  • Pomaikaiokalani September 16, 2010 at 5:38pm
    ALOHA Kakou, e Hawaii,
    The Kulani Correctional Facility would be the perfect enviromental place for the rebirth of our people.
    Long Live The Hawaiian Kingdom, o Pomai
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