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Charles E. Johnson Correctional Center (also known as the Bill Johnson Correctional Center, or BJCC) is an Oklahoma Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma. [3] BJCC is the newest of the Oklahoma DOC's 17 institutions, opened in 1995, and expanded in 2011–2012. [4]
Northeast Oklahoma Correctional Center (inmate capacity 501) North Fork Correctional Center; Oklahoma State Penitentiary; William S. Key Correctional Center; Clara Waters Community Corrections Center; Enid Community Corrections Center; Kate Barnard Community Corrections Center (inmate capacity 260), closed in 2021 [1] Lawton Community ...
After a disputed report on the conditions in the Kansas Penitentiary, Oklahoma opened an institution in the former federal jail in McAlester. [ 3 ] On January 10, 1967, Oklahoma created a new state Corrections Department, consisting of a State Board of Corrections, State Director of Corrections, and three divisions: a Division of Institutions ...
Joseph Harp Correctional Center (JHCC) is an Oklahoma Department of Corrections state prison for male inmates located in Lexington, Cleveland County, Oklahoma. The medium-security facility opened in September 1978. [3] JHCC was named for Joseph Harp. who served as warden of the Oklahoma State Reformatory from 1949 to 1969. Regarded by his ...
Hinton, Oklahoma: Status: open: Security class: medium: Capacity: 1940: Opened: 1991: Managed by: Oklahoma Department of Corrections ODOC officially took over the Great Plains Correctional Center from the GEO Group in May, 2023. The facility will house inmates from around the state, providing additional efficiencies, namely saving the State of ...
Steven Harpe is trying to give the roughly 23,000 inmates in Oklahoma custody a greater voice in how the prisons operate. ... a recent inmate council meeting at a state prison, ... 23,000 inmates ...
Another inmate at the Lawton prison, Alford Bradley, died in 2021 after Boger withheld treatment for a hernia because Bradley did not appear to be in pain, according to the lawsuit.
By 1973 the number of inmates was double the occupancy. The prison riot began on July 27. The prisoner took around twenty-one prison officials hostage. The hostages were released on July 28. On August 4, the inmates lost control of the prison. Three inmates died over the course of the riot. Over $20 million worth of damages was done to the prison.