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Oklahoma Corrections Department has no issue with for-profit inmate transfer service
By newsok.com- Andrew Knittle
Published: 07/25/2016

While the industry itself has come under scrutiny in recent weeks, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections has encountered few problems with a for-profit inmate transport company it has contracted with in recent years.

Since 2014, state Corrections Department records show the agency has spent $99,009 with Texas Prisoner Transportation Services, a private company that specializes in busing inmates from one place to another — for a price.

Terri Watkins, spokeswoman for the state Corrections Department, said private firms are used “when the (agency's) Inspector General's office is not available for transport or extradition.”

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