HRS §124B-143
Escaping from correctional custody or restriction
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section covers three ways a person subject to this chapter can commit an offense by leaving or going beyond correctional custody or restriction. It applies to escapes from physical restraint, going beyond non-physical restraint, and going beyond ordered limits. The penalty is whatever a court-martial decides.
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The statute, as written — Offenses against correctional custody and restriction
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) Any person subject to this chapter who: (1) Is placed in correctional custody by a person authorized to do so; (2) While in correctional custody, is under physical restraint; and (3) Escapes from the physical restraint before being released from the physical restraint by proper authority, shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. (b) Any person subject to this chapter who: (1) Is placed in correctional custody by a person authorized to do so; (2) While in correctional custody, is under restraint other than physical restraint; and (3) Goes beyond the limits of the restraint before being released from the correctional custody or relieved of the restraint by proper authority, shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. (c) Any person subject to this chapter who: (1) Is ordered to be restricted to certain limits by a person authorized to do so; and (2) With knowledge of the limits of the restriction, goes beyond those limits before being released by proper authority, shall be punished as directed by a court-martial.
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