The mission of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is "to provide a secure correctional environment for comprehensive rehabilitative, holistic, and wraparound re-entry services to persons sentenced to our custody and care with professionalism, integrity, respect, and fairness.

[3] The Corrections Division comprises the following units: The division oversees four jails, which house pretrial inmates, short-term misdemeanants, and felony offenders who have almost completed their sentences:[10] The division is also responsible for overseeing four prisons:[10] Kulani Correctional Facility is located on the Big Island of Hawaii, while the remaining three prisons are located on the island of Oahu.

[13] The Mainland Section initially contracted with three facilities, one in Kentucky and two in Arizona, to house prisoners sentenced in Hawaii.

[15] The state also removed its prisoners from CCA's Red Rock Correctional Center in Arizona in 2014.

[16] About 1,900 male Hawaii state inmates are held at CCA's Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona.