Hawaii reached the milestone earlier this year of having no girls in its only youth correctional facility — a first in state history, officials say.
Tia Hartsock, who served as director of Project Kealahou, said she and other officials studied the records of at-risk girls to help Patterson and others determine where the incarcerated youth “fell through the gaps” in the education and mental health systems and other areas and to prevent that from happening in the future.
Born while her mother was incarcerated at the youth facility in the 1980s, she said she endured sexual trauma at a young age and began numbing her shame with drugs and running away from home before getting locked up there herself.“And I had to carry that on my own and not say anything to anybody because I was so ashamed. … So that’s where survival mode comes in. You’re on the streets, and you do whatever it takes to get money,” Takata explained.
Under Patterson’s leadership, which included advocating for more state spending on the youth correctional center, the 500-acre property nestled at the base of the Olomana mountain, transformed into a sprawling, rehabilitation-focused facility.
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