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Kauai Community Correctional Center

Lihue, Kauai County, Hawaii

Visiting schedules change without notice. Always call before traveling.

Call Visiting Office: (808) 241-3050 ext. 244 Info last verified: June 2026

Kauai's jail, in Lihue, a small facility holding pretrial and sentenced men and women, with tablet-based phone and video visits.

Statewide rules that apply at HI DCR facilities

These rules are set by HI DCR and apply at every unit. The full list — including all permitted and prohibited items and the approval process — is in Visiting in Hawaii.

Dress code

Dress modestly — Hawaii facilities enforce a visiting dress code that bars revealing, sheer, or provocative clothing, beachwear, and anything resembling what inmates or staff wear; closed-toe footwear is expected.
Each facility sets and enforces its own specifics and may turn a visitor away for dressing out of code, and electronics are not allowed inside, so confirm the dress code with the facility before traveling.

ID: Every visitor must be on the inmate's approved visitor list before visiting — the inmate submits the proposed list, DCR runs a background check, and the facility approves or denies. Bring a government-issued photo ID to each visit.
What to bring: Bring only what the facility allows — most personal items are not permitted in the visiting room. Money for an inmate's account at an in-state facility is sent through GTL / ViaPath ConnectNetwork, never handed over at a visit; the Saguaro prison in Arizona uses a separate money process.
Scheduling: Hawaii has no statewide online scheduler — each facility sets its own visiting days and hours and runs its own visitation hotline, so confirm with the specific facility. Video visits are available through tablets at the in-state facilities. The neighbor-island facilities (on Maui, Kauai, and the Big Island) are reachable from Oahu mainly by air. The roughly 800 men held at the Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizona visit on that prison's schedule, with video booked through the state's mainland branch. Women are held at the Women's Community Correctional Center (Kailua).

Full statewide rules: Visiting in Hawaii

Overview

Kauai Community Correctional Center (KCCC) is operated by the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR). It is the jail for the island of Kauai, in Lihue, and is a small facility — a reported capacity of roughly 128 beds. It holds both men and women.

Hawaii runs a unified corrections system: the state has no separate county jail system, so DCR operates both the jails (the Community Correctional Centers) and the sentenced-felon prisons. The Community Correctional Centers hold mostly people awaiting trial (pretrial) and people serving shorter sentences, and they also hold some sentenced people in reintegration and work programs. KCCC holds both pretrial and sentenced people.

What Makes the Kauai Community Correctional Center Different

KCCC serves the island of Kauai. Because Hawaii’s system is unified, it functions as a jail holding both pretrial and sentenced people in the same site rather than as a sentenced-only prison. Because it is mainly a jail, a person’s custody status and location can change; VINELink shows the current location.

The facility is on Kauai, and there is no road or bridge connecting Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands. Visitors traveling from Oahu or another island reach Kauai by inter-island air travel, which makes travel cost and scheduling larger factors than at a facility a family can drive to. For families who cannot travel to the island, video visits through the facility’s tablets are the practical remote option (see Phone, Video, and Mail below).

Visiting

The statewide DCR rules above — the approved-visitor-list process, the dress code, ID requirements, and item limits — apply at KCCC. The facility’s own arrangements:

Getting There

Kauai Community Correctional Center is at 3-5351 Kuhio Highway in Lihue, on the island of Kauai. Lihue is served by Lihue Airport. Kauai is not connected by road to the other Hawaiian islands, so visitors from Oahu or a neighbor island arrive by air and use local roads or ground transportation on the island to reach the facility.

Visitors confirm current entry procedures, the visitor-processing location, and what may be brought onto the grounds with the facility before arriving, because electronic devices and personal items are generally not permitted inside the visiting area.

Phone, Video, and Mail

Phones, tablets, and video visits at KCCC are provided by GTL (ViaPath), with calling and account funds billed through ConnectNetwork. The facility’s tablets support video visitation during assigned times, which is how families connect remotely with someone at the facility. Details on setting up an account and call costs are in the phone-and-video guide below, and adding money is covered in the money guide.

Hawaii does not use an off-site mail-scanning vendor for its in-state facilities. Incoming personal mail goes directly to the facility, where staff open and inspect it before delivery. Address personal mail with the inmate’s full name and inmate number at the facility’s address. Sources differ on the facility’s exact street number — the DCR facility page lists 3-5351 Kuhio Highway, while the state directory lists 5350 Kuhio Highway (both Lihue, HI 96766). Confirm the exact current mailing format with the facility before sending mail. Books, magazines, and other publications must be sent directly from the publisher or an approved vendor; the rules on envelopes, photos, and rejected items are in the mail guide below.

Learn More

For detailed information about visiting and communicating with someone at a Hawaii facility:

Visiting in Hawaii — approval process, dress code, scheduling
Mail & Packages — what you can send and what gets rejected
Phone & Video Calls — accounts, call costs, video visits
Sending Money — how to add funds to an account
Medical & Mental Health — health care in Hawaii facilities
Transfers — what happens during transfers

Sources

This page is compiled from the following publicly available sources. Policies change without notice — confirm current details with the facility before relying on them.