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Oahu Community Correctional Center

Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii

Visiting schedules change without notice. Always call before traveling.

Call Visiting Office: (808) 832-1633 Info last verified: June 2026

Hawaii's largest jail, in the Kalihi area of Honolulu, holding mostly pretrial men for Oahu plus sentenced men in a reintegration program.

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

Oahu Community Correctional Center is the largest jail in Hawaii, operated by the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It is in the Kalihi area of Honolulu on Kamehameha Highway.

Hawaii runs a unified jail-and-prison system, meaning the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation operates both jail and prison functions — Hawaii has no separate county jail system. OCCC primarily holds pretrial detainees for Oahu, along with sentenced men in a reintegration program. Because it functions mainly as a pretrial jail, the population turns over frequently, and a person’s custody status and housing can change as a case moves through court or after sentencing and classification.

What Makes the Oahu Community Correctional Center Different

The Oahu Intake Service Center is co-located at OCCC. It handles pretrial assessment and intake for Oahu and is part of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s separate Intake Service Centers Division, which runs assessment offices on each main island.

OCCC also oversees the Laumaka Work Furlough Center, a work-furlough unit one block away. Laumaka houses men who are working or seeking work in the community and is the site of the Project Bridge transitional program. Laumaka operates under OCCC rather than as a separately listed facility.

A New Oahu Jail Is Planned

A new Oahu jail is planned to replace the aging, overcrowded OCCC. A site at the bottom of Halawa Valley has been selected, and the project is in planning and design as of 2025–2026. The replacement jail has not been built, and reported figures and timelines are estimates that have shifted across sources. Until the new facility opens, OCCC remains the operating Oahu jail. Current details on the project are posted at the official New Oʻahu Jail Project site.

Getting There

Oahu Community Correctional Center is at 2199 Kamehameha Highway in the Kalihi area of Honolulu, on Oahu’s south shore. It is northwest of downtown Honolulu and is reached from the H-1 freeway and Kamehameha Highway. Daniel K. Inouye International Airport is a short distance to the west.

Mail and Communication

Hawaii does not use an off-site mail vendor for its in-state facilities. Incoming personal mail goes directly to OCCC, addressed to the inmate at the facility. Books and magazines must be sent directly from the publisher or an approved vendor. See the Mail & Packages guide for envelope rules and what gets rejected.

Phones, tablets, and video visits run through GTL (ViaPath), billed through ConnectNetwork. Tablets support video visitation during assigned times, which is how families connect remotely. Details on accounts, call costs, and video visits are in the Phone & Video Calls guide, and trust-account deposits are covered in Sending Money.

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.