Tafuna Correctional Facility
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On September 27, 2023 at 11:20 AM Chief of Police Pouu’amea Tuaolo Supapo and Director of the Tafuna Correctional Facility met up and gathered information regarding the escape of Tauagiga Taele from confinement at the District Court.
Department of Public Safety Officers...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Moving forward to improve conditions at TCF was a huge concern House members voiced during the House Public Safety Committee hearing on Thursday morning Aug 24, 2023 where Director of the Department of Corrections (DOC) Tauanuu Semo Faisiota, Tafuna Correctional Facility...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lt. Governor Talauega E. V. Ale in his capacity as Acting Governor personally conducted a “walk through” for “key leaders” at the Tafuna Correctional Facility last week. Those accompanying the acting governor were not named in a press released issued yesterday by the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — There is a “gross injustice” with regard to how the Tafuna Correctional Facility (TCF) in Tafuna is operated which has been going on for years, and a “blatant negligence” of the infrastructure of the TCF, namely the Bravo Building where Pending Inmates are detained,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — District Court Judge Fiti Sunia has dismissed without prejudice the felony count of tampering with public records against DPS prison guard Mosese Lomu, after the court was unable to find probable cause to bind the charge over to High Court for arraignment.
However, the...