Articles tagged with: prisons
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- At Oklahoma schools, Obama’s speech stirs little ado
- Family may sue over Oklahoma inmate’s slaying
- ODOT approves $4 billion 8-year plan for bridges and highways
- With Mercury Marine moving on, Stillwater looks to its own
- Cherokees using computers to preserve native language [MP3 Audio]
- Rate of high school grads going to college stays flat
- Eufaula mayor charged with embezzling $191, suspends police chief
- 1,500 Oklahoma autopsies still pending, including 108 from 2008
- Cherokees ask to intervene in poultry lawsuit
- Tulsa group calls for condemning Creek Nation land
- Two cities wait for Mercury Marine to decide
- Oklahoma female incarceration rate highest in the U.S., almost double national average
- McCarville Report: Boren challenge a non-starter?
- Okie Funk: Did Coburn condone violent rhetoric?
- Oklahoma Women’s Network: 8 ways health reform will provide you security/stability
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- A Downtown on the Range: My 4-page plea to the city council
- Roemerman on Record: Tulsa is not a business
- OK Policy Blog: State prison population growth slows
From The Journal Record:
Read the full story »Members of an Oklahoma House committee that allocates money to state prisons toured a 2,500-bed private prison in Lawton on Tuesday as they search for ways to house Oklahoma’s growing inmate population and replace crumbling state buildings. … Committee Chairman Rep. Randy Terrill said private facilities are one way to replace state prisons that, in some cases, are 100 years old.
… Not all members of the committee were eager to endorse private prisons as part of a solution to the state’s overcrowded prison system.
“I have concerns with privates – they’re in the business of profiteering over other people’s misery,” said state Rep. Richard Morrissette, D-Oklahoma City. “Their motive is to lock up more people.”
