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| DOC shows off North Fork Correction Center |
| By tulsaworld.com- Graham Brewer |
| Published: 06/24/2016 |
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SAYRE — Warden Tracy McCollum walked into a quiet cell block at the North Fork Correctional Center on Thursday, a group of reporters carrying cameras and tripods following closely behind, and looked around at the dozens of open cell doors in the two-story pod. Next month, the roughly 1,200 inmates at McCollum’s prison in Granite, the Oklahoma State Reformatory, will begin filling the empty facility here. The Oklahoma Board of Corrections approved a contract in May to rent the prison, owned by Corrections Corporation of America, for five years. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections allowed the media to tour North Fork on Thursday, and McCollum said it will be much more efficient for the needs of his inmates, who are all at least 40 years old. North Fork is close to a century newer than the state reformatory and offers better medical facilities. Read More. |
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