Oklahoma County Jail remains dangerously overcrowded By: Keaton Ross Oklahoma Watch April 14, 2021
The Oklahoma County Detention Center. (Courtesy photo/Oklahoma Watch)
When U.S. Department of Justice investigators inspected the Oklahoma County Detention Center in April 2007, they discovered that severe overcrowding was causing significant harm to detainees.
“Throughout the facility, we found detainees sleeping on the floor and three or four detainees locked into two-man cells,” investigators wrote in a 2008 report that found conditions inside the facility did not meet constitutional standards. “The detainees spend nearly 24 hours per day in these cramped quarters.”
The jail’s population has dropped by about a third over the past 12 years – from 2,412 in June 2009 to 1,595 on March 31. The Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Advisory Council, a group tasked with recommending solutions to reduce the jail’s population, attributes the decline to changes i
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By: Jordan Dafnis
OKLAHOMA CITY -
New information is expected Monday from state and energy officials about proposed legislation to address high energy and utility bills due to February s winter storm.
We re expecting to hear from Attorney General Mike Hunter, the state secretary of energy, and the state corporation commission.
Right now, the commission is working on a time frame for when OG&E customers will start paying recovery costs for the February cold snap. But they say the costs will be spread out for customers over the next ten years.
OG&E and Oklahoma Natural Gas both said the record cold temperatures around Valentine s Day, combined with soaring fuel prices cost them more than a billion dollars each.