Hawaii

1. The Project Addressing Prison Rape was not able to locate state specific policies. If you have access to this language, please email endsilence@wcl.american.edu.
2. Policy: Hawaii Department of Safety Prison Rape Elimination Act- PREA
3. Language:
   1. Under the state’s policy, the Hawaii Department of Public Safety cannot decide where to place transgender inmates based only on their anatomy; it must make an individualized assessment that takes into account each inmate’s gender identity and personal concerns about safety. However, in practice, transgender inmates are placed according to their gender at birth.

“No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.”

Nelson Mandela