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| Inmates released, too sick to serve time |
| By mywebpal.com - Lance West, KFOR |
| Published: 05/07/2012 |
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LEXINGTON, Okla. — The razor-sharp wire, 14-foot chain link fences and steel doors are a cage of sorts for some of Oklahoma’s most dangerous felons. Almost 1,500 men who have victimized society call Joseph Harp Correctional Center home. We asked inmate James Price what he’d done, “Gosh, so many different things, I don’t want to say. It wasn’t just one thing.” Price, 73, has only served a fraction of his 650-year prison sentence. He is a convicted child molester with dementia who’s only hope to ever leave Joseph Harp Correctional Center is “medical parole.” Dominic Zales, health care orderly at Joseph Harp, said, ”A lot of these guys who are elderly and have health issues, I don’t see them being a threat to society.” In the last two years,158 inmates were considered for medical parole; 45 were approved, meaning they walked out of prison and right back into society. Victim rights advocate Tina Harman said, “You can be sick, you can be incapacitated, you can have a terrible disease, but you can still be a threat.” Read More. |
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