Built in the 1950s, Hale Ho’omalu Juvenile Hall was closed in 2010. Six months prior to my visit I met with Wendell Kikuchi, Deputy Chief Court Administrator for Hawaii at a JDAI conference. He candidly discussed the new facility intended to replace the Hale Ho’omalu Juvenile Hall, telling me that he felt they may have gotten it all wrong, He suggested that they were  building this new facility, almost completed in fact, and it looked like an adult prison, but it was too late to turn around now.