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HI DPS – Kauai Community Correctional Center (KCCC) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 808-241-3057
This facility is for adult inmates.
The inmates housed at HI DPS – Kauai Community Correctional Center (KCCC) located at 3-5351 Kuhio Hwy in Lihue, HI are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.
The Kauai Community Correctional Center (KCCC) is a 130-bed facility. In addition to its jail functions, KCCC offers education, substance abuse treatment, religious counseling, cultural arts, and work furlough programs.
KCCC offers sentenced felons an opportunity to participate in its Lifetime Stand Program, which provides a structured, paramilitary regimen of marching, drill exercises, physical training, education, and community outreach. The Lifetime Stand Program stresses discipline, perseverance, work ethic, and personal responsibility.
In addition to in-facility worklines, KCCC community service worklines provide a labor force on numerous projects for county and non-profit organizations. KCCC’s vegetable farm maintained by inmates, with products used by KCCC’s food services unit. Excess vegetables are donated to community organizations such as senior centers.
