David Y. Ige

HONOLULU – The Department of Public Safety Sheriff Division reports one (1) employee assigned to the Sheriff Division Airport Section confirmed a positive test result. Notification was made to the Department of Transportation as well as the Department of Health.

COVID-19 testing is continuously being conducted in the state prisons and jails as well as in the contracted Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, AZ. The latest testing updates received for other correctional facilities are as follows:

Kauai Community Correctional Center – 46 negative inmate test results and 20 negative staff test results.

Hawaii Correctional Facility – 40 negative inmate test results and 19 negative staff test results.

Oahu Community Correctional Center – 28 negative inmate test results and 22 negative staff test results.

Waiawa Correctional Facility – 14 negative inmate test results and three (3) negative staff test results.

Hawaii Community Correctional Center – 10 negative inmate test results.

Maui Community Correctional Center – Six (6) negative inmate test results.

Women’s Community Correctional Center – Two (2) negative inmate test results.

For more detailed inmate testing data, PSD’s Pandemic Plan and information on response efforts made to safeguard the inmates, staff and public, visit the dedicated COVID-19 webpage at: https://dps.hawaii.gov/blog/2020/03/17/coronavirus-covid-19-information-and-resources/.

Toni Schwartz
Public Information Officer
Hawaii Department of Public Safety
Office: 808-587-1358
Cell: 808-683-5507
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