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| Corrections interim director talks about prison issues |
| By okcfox.com- Phil Cross |
| Published: 04/29/2016 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — There's a new push to reform Oklahoma's outdated criminal justice system, but will it be enough to help save the state's corrections department? For years the department of corrections has been led by people who run prison, but when the last director left the DOC board looked to the outside. The board hired Joe M. Allbaugh, a veteran of presidential campaigns and the former head of the federal emergency management agency, to be the interim director. "Talk is cheap and I like to make things happen and do things," Allbaugh told Fox 25. "It's all about leadership and leadership you lay out a vision and then you take steps to accomplish that vision." Allbaugh says one of the biggest concerns in the state's prison system is overcrowding. The DOC manages around 60,000 offenders. Of those, more than 28,000 are currently incarcerated. The prisons were simply not built to hold that many people and the DOC is now at 122-percent capacity. That doesn't include the 1,200-1,600 inmates that come in to prisons every year. Read More. |
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