Minimum, medium, and maximum · Women's Prison · HI DCR

Women's Community Correctional Center

Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii

Visiting schedules change without notice. Always call before traveling.

Call Visiting Office: (808) 266-9675 Info last verified: June 2026

Hawaii's only women's prison, in Kailua on Oahu, holding sentenced and pretrial women at all custody levels and serving as the statewide women's facility.

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

Women’s Community Correctional Center (WCCC), on Kalanianaole Highway in Kailua, is Hawaii’s only women’s prison. It functions as the statewide facility for women in the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR). Because Hawaii operates a unified corrections system — the state runs both pretrial detention and prisons for sentenced people, and there is no county jail system — WCCC holds women at minimum, medium, and maximum custody, both pretrial (unsentenced) and sentenced.

Despite “Community Correctional Center” in its name — a label Hawaii usually applies to its jails — WCCC is classified as a prison.

What Makes Women’s Community Correctional Center Different

It is the state’s only women’s prison. Women across Hawaii who are in DCR custody are generally held here, which makes WCCC the practical placement point for women entering the system.
It holds all custody levels, pretrial and sentenced. In Hawaii’s unified system, the same facility houses women being held before trial and women serving sentences, across minimum, medium, and maximum custody.
It runs in-facility programs. These include the Ke Alaula therapeutic community, parenting programs, education, domestic-violence treatment, day reporting, and the Project Bridge reentry program. The Ke Alaula unit has 50 beds; that figure describes the unit, not the facility’s total capacity.

Visiting

The statewide DCR rules above — the approved visitor list, the dress code, ID, and item limits — apply at Women’s Community Correctional Center. The facility’s own arrangements:

The full approval process is in Visiting in Hawaii.

Getting There and Parking

The facility is on Kalanianaole Highway in Kailua, on the windward (east) side of Oahu.

Mail

Hawaii DCR does not use an off-site mail vendor. Incoming personal mail goes directly to the facility, where mail staff inspect it before delivery. Address personal mail with the person’s full name and inmate number, the facility name, and the facility address:

[Inmate’s full name and number] Women’s Community Correctional Center 42-477 Kalanianaole Highway Kailua, HI 96734

There is no limit on the volume of correspondence. Mail without the sender’s full first and last name and return address can be rejected, and envelopes with stickers, ink stamps, glitter, glue, drawings, bookmarks, or lipstick or kiss marks can be rejected. Books, magazines, and other publications must be ordered directly from a publisher or an approved vendor and shipped to the facility; personal book mailings, food, and packages are not accepted. Full rules are in Mail & Packages.

Communicating

Phones, tablets, and video visits run through GTL (ViaPath), billed through ConnectNetwork. Tablets are provided in the facility and support video visitation during assigned times, along with messaging and media; some features cost money. Details on setting up accounts and call costs are in Phone & Video Calls, and how to add funds is 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.