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HRS §353-1.4

Setting up the prison health care program

This section creates a health care program for inmates inside the department. The director appoints the program's administrator and the doctors who treat inmates, without following the usual civil service hiring rules.

state agencies

The statute, as written — Correctional health care program

There is established a correctional health care program within the department. The administrator of the correctional health care program and physicians who provide care to inmates shall be appointed by the director without regard to chapter 76.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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