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| LeFlore County Jail Hires New Administrator, Eyes Cuts |
| By swtimes.com- Stacy Ryburn |
| Published: 06/16/2014 |
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As a cost-cutting measure, the LeFlore County Detention Center Public Trust has hired a new jail administrator, and it is looking at other ways to lower expenditures. In January, the state hired a new director at the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and tasked him with overhauling the prison system. In April, the state began expediting state prisoners being held at county jails to the state prisons as a way to tighten the $464 million annual state prison system budget, according to a May 19 Times Record report. The LeFlore County County Detention Center is funded through a combination of a ΒΌ-cent sales tax for operations and maintenance at the facility, commissary sales and DOC prisoner income. The state prisoner income has waned because the inmates who normally would stay in county jail for several months at a time awaiting transportation to state prison are now quickly moving through the system, said Public Trust Chairman Lance Smith. Read More. |
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