FUTURE WORLD, Tulsa (10/14/2009 2:15:50 PM)

Well this just flies in the face of reality. Daily killings, molestations, rapes, and the complete lack of respect for law and order and we are cutting back on prison space.

We need to find the money. Find space somewhere. A good starting place would be a change in Oklahoma's sentencing laws for first time drug offenders. Change the mental health regulations to allow judges to commit addicts to mental facilities for up to a year for treatment. Get them out of prison and where they belong. Secondly, start building new prisons. Like the BOK Center, build it and they will come!

Oilsooner, Tulsa (10/14/2009 2:23:08 PM)

Lets turn the BOK into a prison.

When it is again safe to venture to downtown activities after dark, we can return to BOK to an event center.

Its time for drastic action.

Exchanging views, Tulsa (10/14/2009 2:58:11 PM)

Wake up and realize sending someone to prison for weed is INSANE. Realize there is no help for pedophiles and simply get it over with, imagine how many would be victims will be saved. If our troops can live in tents, then so should convicts. They don't work for their keep so why should it be better than what our troops get? Start remembering the victims rights NOT the scumbag convicts. Purchase Camp Gruber from the military, remove all buildings except for DOC personnel, install a 5' fence, then mine the area up to 6' out. Make sure the area is marked with signs including words and pictures so all will be informed, no matter their level of education.
See, costs can be cut, you just have to be willing to again remember the majority of the residents are thugs that were walled off from society for a reason, and stop feeling sorry for them.

okie ridgerunner, Small Country Town State Line (10/14/2009 9:40:23 PM)

Exchanging views said it.

Okiedokie, (10/15/2009 6:25:02 AM)

MONEY THAT COSTS TOO MUCH

Avalon, CCA, and GEO are all listed on the stock market. Every quarter the CEOs of these private prison companies are severely pressured to show the most profit possible for their officials and stockholders. Lots of crime and long prison sentences become “virtues.” Prisoners become profit-making commodities. And Oklahoma legislators
who take the “private prison” money are expected to vote accordingly. What a sad,depraved situation.

forkandknife, Tulsa (10/15/2009 10:33:35 AM)

(oilsooner)

LMFAO! I like the way you think!

forkandknife, Tulsa (10/15/2009 10:34:28 AM)

...still laughing.

ShanksALot, (10/15/2009 10:57:13 AM)

OK, so we know how much the state pays CCA and GEO for each prisoner. But how much would it cost per prisoner if the state were in charge of those inmates? Most often, it's more.

So if we cut back on partnering with these companies to operate our prisons, but it costs the state MORE to do so, how is that saving us any money?

truth fairy, (10/15/2009 11:53:56 AM)

Okiedokie is right.
These corporations have corrupted our state house and senate with campaign donations and fringe benefits for influence to increase state subsidies. This industry profits by the imprisonment of human beings, not rehabilitation. Private prisons have been condemned as immoral by every major organized religious faith, and by our own government until the mid 20th century.
Over 1% of the U.S. population is now imprisoned; the second highest in the world, to first place Rwanda.
GEO Group is Wackenhut, that operates the political prisons that Halliburton/KBR builds and taxpayers subsidize.
Everyone should educate themselves on the corruptive effects of this industry on our government and the poor, one that masquerades as a public service at the expense of our liberty.