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HRS §124B-143

Escaping from correctional custody or restriction

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) 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.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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