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| Oklahoma DOC director hoping for a mild summer |
| By newsok.com |
| Published: 07/05/2017 |
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WILL this be the summer when too many inmates in tight quarters combine with too few correctional officers and too many 100-degree days to spark a serious uprising in an Oklahoma prison? Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh hopes not, of course, but … Without meaningful criminal justice reform, or new prisons, “we will have a serious event,” Allbaugh told his board last week. “It's going to happen one way or the other. You can't keep packing people into facilities that are decrepit and expect everybody to behave.” Allbaugh's regular use of such vivid imagery may lead some to believe he's being dramatic in order to procure additional funding for the agency. But inmates really are being packed into decrepit buildings, and have been for years. Some of Oklahoma's prisons are 100 years old. Think about that for a minute. Buildings that should be historical sites are instead housing prisoners. Many of the state's prisons also weren't built for this purpose, but instead were hospitals or schools that have been retrofitted by the DOC. Read More. |
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