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Oklahoman FORT SUPPLY   A northwest Oklahoma lawmaker says a decision to close a state-owned minimum-security prison will be “devastating” to the rural area after officials with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections said Wednesday they will close the William S. Key Correctional Center by the end of the year. “This is just another kick in the teeth to northwest Oklahoma,” said Sen. Casey Murdock, R-Felt. Nearly 140 employees work at the prison. Current inmates about 1,000 will be moved to other facilities. “The decision to close a facility is always a difficult one,” Department of Corrections Director Scott Crow said in a news release. “However, in order to assure the safety of our staff and inmates and act as proper stewards of the taxpayer funds we are entrusted with, this decision had to be made.”

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