Crime victim restitution up 70%

Honolulu Star Advertisor: The state over the past several years has dramatically increased its collection of funds that inmates and parolees owe to their crime victims, forging a path that national experts say is a model for other states.

Comparing fiscal year 2013 with 2016, the state collected about 70 percent more from the offenders and made 40 percent more disbursements to victims, mostly by focusing on improvements in policy, data collection and interagency coordination, according to the Justice Center for the Council of State Governments, which assisted the state in making the turnaround.

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