* Oklahoma Correctional Industries receives no appropriated dollars thereby all funding is generated through sales.
* Oklahoma Correctional Industries has 24 operations in 12 locations including two private partnership programs.
* Oklahoma Correctional Industries produces over 1 million license plates annually.
* Oklahoma Correctional Industries services over 4,500 active customers annually.
* In CY 2005, inmates under community supervision paid $5,022,249 in fees associated with the cost of their supervision and over $1.6 million in restitution to victims.
* Community corrections facilities provide program and work opportunities for offenders who are nearing the completion of their prison sentence.
* During CY 2005, inmates assigned to work release programs paid to the Department, a total of $3,796,855 toward the cost of their incarceration.
* Contracts with state, local and city government entities provide supervised work programs that benefit not only the inmate, but provide significant resources to local communities.
* Oklahoma Correctional Industries generates between $15 million and $17 million in annual sales revenues.
* Between 600-700 offenders are released from custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections monthly.
* Oklahoma’s incarceration rate ranks 4th nationally for males and 1st for females. Approximately 24,000 people are incarcerated in Oklahoma today. 96% of all offenders will be released back into the community.
* During FY 2006, 2,300 students completed career technical education programs.
* In order to be self-sustaining without any type of public assistance, an ex-offender with no dependents must earn an annual salary of $15,877 in Oklahoma County and $16,034 in Tulsa County.
* The Department of Corrections Education Unit is accredited through the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement, as well as the Oklahoma State Department of Education.
* In FY 2005, the education unit received more than $1.5 million in federal grant money.
* Community Sentencing reports an 80% success rate!
* Career Tech Skills Centers are comprised of 20 Department of Corrections campuses; five at community corrections centers, one in a private prison, and 14 in state correctional facilities.
* The Oklahoma Department of Corrections consists of seventeen institutions, seven community corrections centers, six probation and parole districts and fifteen work centers.
* As of December 2005, there were 2,442 women in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections; 7, 579 on probation; 803 under parole supervision; and 85 pending transfer from county jails to the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center.
* 59.3% of the total female population is incarcerated for non-violent crimes and 40.7% for violent crimes.
* The GED overall pass rate for women is 98.8 % according to FY2005 data.
* As of July 3, 2006 there were 2,213 women incarcerated in the state with the average age being 37 years old.
* In 1907, Kate Barnard became Oklahoma’s first Commissioner of Charities and Corrections, serving two terms. She was also the first woman to ever be elected a State official in Oklahoma, in the United States and in the world at that time.
* Oklahoma leads the nation in the rate of female offender incarceration at 129 per 100,000 population; the nation’s average female incarceration rate is 57 per 100,000 population.
* The average cost of incarceration for one offender per year is $16,539.
* Oklahoma leads the nation in the rate of female offender incarceration at 129 per 100,000 population; the nation’s average female incarceration rate is 57 per 100,000 population.
* Probation and parole supervises more than 34,000 offenders, costing less than $2 per offender per day.
* The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is the first correctional system in the country to be fully accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA) in 1981.
* Agri-Services’ units encompass approximately 25,000 acres of which 19,000 are grassland and 1,700 acres are utilized for actual agricultural production
* In March 1996, the Meat Processing Center became the only U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Apprenticeship certified correctional Meat Cutting Apprenticeship school for inmates in the nation.
* The school is administered by the Oklahoma Department of Vocational and Technical Education and is a three-year course that is taught by Agri-Services staff. Upon successful completion of the program students are certified as journeyman meat cutters and have a viable trade to take with them upon reentry into society.
* Agri-Services provides employment to an average of 450 inmates annually.
* Agri-Services provides 100% of the Department of Corrections need for meat, milk and eggs, assisting in the development of 52,000 meals daily.
* Agri-Services is comprised of twelve units across the state; ten units for agricultural production, a food processing center and a meat processing center.
Oklahoma
Department of Corrections
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1-877-276-JOBS
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