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DOC Director Hopeful Reforms Will Curb Contraband Battles
By news9.com- Alex Cameron
Published: 04/19/2018

OKLAHOMA CITY -

The head of Oklahoma's prison system says what happened in a South Carolina prison last weekend could just as easily have happened in Oklahoma. Seven inmates were killed and more than a dozen others were injured when a fight erupted between rival gang members.

Joe Allbaugh, Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, said you could take the headlines about this incident Sunday night, and switch Oklahoma for South Carolina, and they would be just as plausible.

"Our system in Oklahoma is just like South Carolina's," Allbaugh stated, "relatively the same size, the staff is underpaid and they're over-worked."

The result, Allbaugh said, is that Oklahoma's prisons, like those in South Carolina, are severely understaffed. DOC documents show there are currently more than 700 correctional officer positions vacant, leaving the prisons with an inmate-to-officer ratio of 84 to 1.

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