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Corrections department is digitizing about 400,000 files
By tulsaworld.com- Graham Brewer
Published: 06/06/2016

OKLAHOMA CITY — In an old gymnasium at the Kate Barnard Community Corrections Center, a group of staffers and inmates is trying to conquer a mountain of data.

Towering rows of paper files, microfilm and X-rays seem to go on forever. Three-point arcs and free throw lines are barely visible in the brief patches of space between the metal shelves and boxes that line the aisles.

“With the resources that I have … it will take me five years to try to clean out this warehouse,” Closed Records Manager Janice Thompson said. It’s Thompson’s job to turn the roughly 400,000 files — some dating back to the 1920s — into digital files.

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