HONOLULU — Kauai Community Correctional Center received nearly $3 million in funds to build new housing and to update its wastewater system. According to the Department of Public Safety on Thursday, Gov. Neil Abercrombie released more than $46 million for
HONOLULU — Kauai Community Correctional Center received nearly $3 million in funds to build new housing and to update its wastewater system.
According to the Department of Public Safety on Thursday, Gov. Neil Abercrombie released more than $46 million for various capital improvement projects to invest in state infrastructure and facilities at Hawaii jails and prisons, provide safer hurricane shelters and update the state hospital and public library system. The funding will energize the construction sector, he said.
DPS public information officer Toni Schwartz said the KCCC funds are from the CIP lump sum for fiscal year 2014. The allotment of funds were for DPS projects identified by state legislators and then approved by the governor. Approximately $15.5 million in projects go to improve state correctional facilities.
The funds released were the lump sum CIP for FY 2014. KCCC will use $225,000 for phase II partial re-building of the on-site wastewater treatment plant. Another $2.4 million will go to building new segregation housing for males and females in the most secure part of the jail.
“The CIP is identified for expansion of the segregation unit at KCCC,” Schwartz said. “It will be within the secure facility but we don’t know what the design will look like at this point.”
With DPS stating in March that it would like to build a new KCCC within the next five years, Schwartz said the expansions and improvements to the old facility would not delay the new jail proposal.
CIP funding also went to DPS design and construction of 14 CIPs at various DPS facilities.
