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| Department of Corrections establishes new supervision program |
| By enidnews.com- Ryan Miller |
| Published: 09/28/2017 |
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The overcrowded, underfunded Oklahoma Department of Corrections announced Tuesday its Community Supervision Program (CSP), part of the department's new efforts to alleviate increasingly worse overcrowding. A number of select nonviolent, minimum-security offenders who are within 18 months of completing their sentences will be eligible for the "strict, outside-prison-walls supervision program," according to DOC. The program is set to begin Oct. 1, when DOC staff begin examining inmates for eligibility. "We have been forced to make this decision because our prisons are overpopulated, and no legislation has made the necessary changes to Oklahoma's justice system," said DOC Director Joe Allbaugh. "We need our most basic state government functions funded. Until that happens, ODOC has to find other ways allowed under statute to manage this dire situation." Read More. |
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