Over the long term, actions might include building more facilities and bed spaces, developing halfway houses and short-term residential facilities for nonviolent offenders who are not escape risks, developing such alternatives as community service restitution and other forms of restitution, and enacting statutory amendments to mandatory sentences. However, major impacts on the overcrowding problem cannot occur without major policy changes within criminal justice agencies, cooperation and coordination among criminal justice agencies, and support from the State legislature and the public. The Oahu Community Correctional Center had 648 sentenced felons on June 15, 1982. Most of those sentenced to long-term incarceration had either committed violent crimes or Class A felonies or had numerous arrests and convictions. Only a small number were suitable for alternative sentences. Data tables are supplied.