Locate Waiawa Correctional Facility Inmates

Waiawa Facility Overview

DCR's Waiawa Correctional Facility page identifies WCF as a 334-bed minimum-security prison for sentenced male inmates. It is operated by the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Waiawa is not the Oahu booking jail, and it is not a county sheriff facility. OCCC handles the main Oahu jail role, while Waiawa is a prison placement for men who have been sentenced and classified for minimum-security custody.

The official page emphasizes reentry. DCR says every Waiawa inmate participates in either education or substance-abuse treatment. That is a more specific role than generic prison housing. The facility includes KASHBOX, a large residential treatment program, as well as family and work programs that support release planning. For Honolulu County record searches, Waiawa should be treated as a state prison destination after court and sentencing, not as the first stop after an HPD arrest.

The screenshot below comes from the DCR Waiawa facility page, which is the official source for Waiawa's address, capacity language, phone number, and program summary.

Use that facility page for public contact details, then use Hawaii SAVIN/VINELink to search a person's DCR custody or parole status.

Waiawa Inmate Population

DCR's March 31, 2026 End of Month Population Report lists Waiawa with design capacity 294, operational capacity 334, head count 153, and assigned count 153. The research also notes that Waiawa was far below operational capacity in March 2026 and that the December 29, 2025 weekly population report showed Waiawa occupancy at 51.5 percent. Those figures support Waiawa's distinct role as a minimum-security reentry prison rather than a crowded pretrial jail.

Search Waiawa DCR Custody

Use Hawaii SAVIN/VINELink to search DCR custody and parole status for a Waiawa inmate. The DCR SAVIN page describes Hawaii SAVIN as free, anonymous, and confidential. The system supports web access, the VINELink mobile app, phone registration at 1-877-846-3444, and TTY at 1-866-847-1298. Notification options include email, text, phone call, and in-app alerts where available.

1. Open Hawaii SAVIN/VINELink and choose the Hawaii person-search path.
2. Enter the person's name or identifying number if the number is known.
3. Check whether the record shows Waiawa Correctional Facility, parole, another DCR prison, OCCC, or a mainland placement.
4. Call Waiawa when the locator does not confirm visit status, mail issues, or current placement.

HPD arrest logs do not function as a Waiawa roster. They document recent adult arrests and release codes, and they rotate off the HPD website after 14 days. A person listed in an HPD log may have been released, transferred, taken to court, or later sentenced. If court charges are the question, use eCourt Kokua. If current state prison custody is the question, use SAVIN/VINELink and the Waiawa phone line.

Waiawa Address and Contact

Waiawa has both a physical address and a separate mailing address in the DCR research. Use the physical address for facility location and the mailing address only where DCR policy and facility instructions support sending correspondence. Because mail, visitation, and trust-account rules can change, confirm current instructions with the prison before acting on old information.

Waiawa Visitation

The research did not locate a Waiawa-specific public visitation schedule with days and hours. That gap should not be filled with OCCC or Halawa schedules because those rules belong to different facilities. For Waiawa, the documented approach is to use the DCR facility phone number, confirm the inmate's approval and housing status, and ask for current visit scheduling rules before traveling to Waipahu.

DCR state-prison visitation can depend on approval lists, custody level, schedule changes, and facility operations. A person may appear in a custody locator before visiting is available or before a visitor is approved. Treat the locator as a custody-status tool and the facility call as the source for visit timing. That is especially important at Waiawa because the official research supports strong program and capacity details but not a posted day-by-day visit table.

Waiawa's program model also affects visitor planning. The facility includes treatment, education, workline, and family-support activity, so schedules may be tied to program movement as well as custody status. The research supports calling Waiawa directly rather than relying on a general Honolulu County jail visit rule. Keep the person's DCR status, facility placement, and approval-list status together when planning a visit.

Waiawa Mail and Money

Waiawa's public DCR page links DCR mail and publication policies and lists a separate mailing address. The research also captured the same public notices used on DCR facility pages for GTL calls, GTL tablets, and GTL/ViaPath Connect Network electronic deposits. No fee amount was located for deposits, calls, tablets, or mail processing. Use only the documented vendor and policy details, then confirm the current transaction rules before sending money.

Waiawa Reentry Programs

Waiawa's page is strongest when it is treated as a reentry prison. DCR says KASHBOX devotes 240 beds to intensive residential substance-abuse treatment for inmates with serious substance-abuse problems. The facility also offers general education programs, associate-degree work, food service, building maintenance, heavy equipment, farm, janitorial, tutoring, and landscaping worklines. These details separate Waiawa from Halawa's medium and special-needs prison role.

Waiawa also offers Supporting Keiki of Incarcerated Parents, a pilot program for fathers with substance-abuse issues. The program uses parenting groups, structured playgroups, and reading activities with children. DCR's November 18, 2024 release described the dedication of a new Ohana Visit and Resource Center at Waiawa, funded after Act 125 and designed to support children and family members of incarcerated fathers.

Those local program facts are useful when reading a Waiawa custody result. A person at Waiawa is usually in a lower-security prison setting with a reentry track, not in a first-appearance jail unit. If the case still appears active in court, eCourt Kokua can show court events, but Waiawa itself remains the source for facility participation, visit rules, mail handling, and day-to-day placement.