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Avalon Officials Give Inside Tour After Reopening Under New Policies
By ktul.com- Juan Sanchez
Published: 07/08/2014

Several changes have been made at a halfway house in downtown Tulsa since it reopened under new policies provided by the department of corrections.

Officials at the Avalon Correctional Center opened their doors to KTUL Monday morning since it underwent those changes. In January, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections ordered the halfway house to close after allegations of drug use and mismanagement surfaced.

"Some of them were policy changes and some were actual physical plan changes," Avalon's President Brian Costello said. "That includes taking ceilings...and replacing them with hard ceilings. we took all the baseboards, which were rubberized baseboards which could be easily pulled out, and replaced them with screwed in six inch wooden baseboards that couldn't be removed."

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