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| Interim Oklahoma Corrections Director No Stranger To Obstacles |
| By swtimes.com- Graham Lee Brewer |
| Published: 02/17/2016 |
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In 2006, speaking to Texas Monthly, Joe Allbaugh said his career was about finding new ways to challenge himself. “When I left FEMA, I made a conscious effort not to pigeonhole myself into disaster response and recovery,” the former Federal Emergency Management Agency head and political adviser told the magazine. And while Allbaugh, 63, has found success as a national defense consultant, running the gubernatorial and presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and as a chief of staff for Gov. Henry Bellmon, perhaps his background in disaster recovery was an appropriate place to begin vetting him for his current position as interim director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. When Allbaugh took the job last month he inherited a department rife with problems. The state’s prison system is at 120 percent capacity, the highest it has ever been, but staffing levels are low. Some of the overcrowded prisons are more than a century old, and the system used to track inmates has crippled efforts to adequately account for those serving time in Oklahoma. Read More. |
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