Letter: Devise new rehab system before costly new jail

I agree with the director of the state Department of Correction and Rehabilitation and his staff that the University of Hawaii report, “Breaking Cycles,” does a good job bringing together community input and a broad knowledge base to provide guidance for designing an alternative incarceration system (“Time to look at OCCC as a comprehensive decarceration hub,” Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, March 3). What the report does not do is support their conclusion that an expensive new centralized jail facility is needed to move toward decarceration.

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