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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 in state law and an expansion of local diversion programs.
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Show Transcript Good morning. I m Senator James lee. Right. I chair business, commerce and tourism for the Senate and I recently was appointed by the president pro TEM To chair a select energy committee to investigate the February 2021 storms. As we all know. The february winter storm was widespread throughout the continental us. It brought sub zero temperatures to Oklahoma. For days on end. Our utility systems are not built for that type of weather. The cost of electricity generation went through the roof. Natural gas spiked incredibly high. Oklahoma was has approximately 4.5 billion plus an energy generation cost from the storm as field to generate has passed through the ratepayers. Ratepayers have the obligation for that expense. Doing nothing will f
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Oklahoma lacks jurisdiction for crimes on tribal reservations in which the defendants or victims are tribal citizens.
April 9, 2021 3:10 PM Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday overturned another state murder conviction because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that much of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation.
Chickasaw Nation member Charles Michael Cooper was convicted and sentenced to life without parole for the 2016 death of Cindy Allen, who was found strangled inside her burned home in Pontotoc County on land within the historic reservation of the Chickasaw Nation.
The U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled, in what is known as the McGirt decision, that Oklahoma lacks jurisdiction for crimes on tribal reservations in which the defendants or victims are tribal citizens.