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Not All Criminals Need to Be Jailed

A letter to the editor in today's Honolulu Star-Advertiser has some great suggestions for handling Hawaii's crooks.

Instead of jailing them, a huge expense to us taxpayers and a perhaps unnecessary deprivation of the person's freedom, the writer makes such suggestions as:

Locally, thieves caught breaking into tourists' cars can help set up 'bait car' stings to nab their fellow robbers. Drug abusers can wear ankle bracelets and spend hundreds of hours in community service.

To read the short letter, click here. It's the one at the very top.