January 30, 2008
Pop-Up “Insta Prisons” for Hawaii?
State prison officials hope to use federal money to build new tentlike structures to house up to 448 prison inmates on Maui, Kaua'i and the Big Island to ease overcrowding in state prisons and jails. The housing would be 7,064-square-foot "Sprung Instant Structures" made from a membrane stretched over an aluminum skeleton. Each structure could house up to 64 inmates, according to a letter from Gov. Linda Lingle to federal authorities…
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