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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 constitu...
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 ...
Disturbing moment Oklahoma City inmate armed with a shank takes guard hostage before being shot dead Curtis Williams, 34, inmate at Oklahoma County Detention Center, was shot dead on March 27, after he took guard Daniel Misquez hostage Video shows Williams armed with a shank holding Misquez at knifepoint Police officers and deputies storm the jail pod and fatally shoot Williams Misquez was beaten and stabbed during incident but survived
Oklahoman The call that a riot was breaking out on the second floor of the Oklahoma County jail came in at 11:26 p.m. Feb. 7. "There's like four people using weapons," an inmate told the central control employee. "I'm looking on the camera right now," the employee said. "I don't see that." Are you sure, the inmate asked. "Yep," the employee replied. "But I'll check with the rover, thank you." A review of surveillance video, however, shows the employee, Martin Jacobs, "never picked up his radio to notify anyone," according to an internal investigative report of the altercation on 2B that ...