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In-person visitation will resume Monday at the Maui Community Correctional Center and other state jails and prisons, the state Department of Public Safety announced.
Families will have to follow new COVID-19 guidelines, including undergoing temperature checks and wearing masks, to enter facilities.
"Now that the latest COVID-19 outbreak to hit our state has passed, the department feels it is safe to resume family visitation as long as the families and inmates follow the added COVID-19 safety measures," said Tommy Johnson, deputy director for corrections.
Regular visitation rules will apply. The Wailuku jail and other facilities will resume their normal visitation schedules but will be adjusting to conduct the visits in compliance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention social distancing requirements for contained correctional settings, according to the department.
"We know inmates and their families have been looking forward to the restoration of visits and we appreciate everyone's patience as we reestablish the process," Johnson said. "Because of the added social distancing requirement, the facilities will have to reduce the number of people in the visitation rooms. Wait times may be longer due to these new requirements and that means the number of visitors allowed in each day will decrease."
Under new COVID-19 safety measures, visitors will undergo temperature checks and will be required to fill out COVID health screening forms when entering facilities. Masks must be worn at all times, and visitation areas will be sanitized between each visit session, according to the department.
Visiting schedules and rules for each facility can be found on the Department of Public Safety website at dps.hawaii.gov/about/divisions/corrections/.
As of Monday, 303 inmates were incarcerated at the Maui Community Correctional Center, which has a design capacity of 209 and operational capacity of 301.