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| State looking for more prison beds |
| By swoknews.com - Clifton Adcock |
| Published: 01/10/2014 |
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The Oklahoma Board of Corrections is looking at three options to deal with overcrowding at the state's prison facilities: expanding public prisons, contracting for more private-prison beds, and buying or leasing one of the state's two empty private prisons. Private prisonsmay benefit At its Thursday meeting, the board approved a measure allowing the Department of Corrections to draw up a request for proposals from private prison companies to provide an additional 350 to 2,000 medium-security prison beds for state inmates. The board also voted to request more funding this fiscal year to pay for using private-prison beds and seek more funds for fiscal 2015 to give a pay raise to corrections officers and support staff. As of the end of December, 5,824 Department of Corrections inmates more than a fourth of the total prison population were in private prisons, according to the agency's latest inmate count. An additional 1,126 inmates were in contracted halfway houses and 518 were being held in contracted county jails. Read More. |
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