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 2009 YEARBOOK - OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

State of Oklahoma.
Brad Henry, Governor.

STANDING PROUD.

VISION: The Department of Corrections will create a culture that empowers individuals, encourages teamwork, employs best practices, and embraces diversity.

VALUES:

 

MISSION STATEMENT: “The mission of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections is to protect the public, the employees, and the offenders.”

Contents:

Historical Highlights

Foreward

Board of Corrections

Employee and Volunteer Awards

Highlights

ODOC Interesting Facts

Director’s Office

Employee Rights and Relations

Executive Communications

General Counsel

Internal Affairs

Administrative Services

Field Operations

Female Offender Operations

Institutions

Operational Services

Private Prison and Jail Administration

Treatment and Rehabilitative Services

Community Corrections

Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services

Charts and Statistics

Budget Information

Agency Directory

 

History

January 10, 1967 is an important day in corrections history. It was on this date that Governor Dewey Bartlett made a historic announcement in his Legislative address, when he said: “I have had prepared for introduction, today, a bill creating a new Department of Corrections. This bill has been prepared, after consultation with leaders of both Houses of the Legislature. It is a joint recommendation of your leadership and the administration. Briefly, this bill provides for the creation of a new state Corrections Department, consisting of a state Board of Corrections, a state director of Corrections, and three divisions: a Division of Institutions, a Division of Probation and Parole, and a Division of Inspection. The Division of Inspection will perform duties of the present Charities and Corrections Department.”

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Foreword

As you may be aware the Oklahoma Department of Corrections produces an annual report that illustrates data, research, evaluations and other key profiles and indicators that represent our offender population. Also with the current product you have just accessed, “2009 Yearbook,” we produce information related to leadership staff and our facilities. This is accomplished for historical record keeping and prosperity. The yearbook captures the status of many of our programs, progress, and documents organizational structures.This yearbook demonstrates and documents our commitment to quality correctional services and to our mission, vision and values.
I hope you enjoy reading this 2009 version and the employees of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections look forward to continually providing quality services to the great state of Oklahoma.

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Board of Corrections

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections was created by legislation in 1967, and in that legislation, the State Board of Corrections was created to be the governing board of the Department. The legislation stated that the Board shall consist of seven members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. One member shall be appointed from each congressional district and any remaining members shall be appointed from the State at-large. The term of appointment is six years and the terms are staggered. No more than four members of the Board shall be of the same political party. Vacancies on the Board are filled for the unexpired term. Board officers include Chairperson, Vice-chairperson, and Secretary, which are filled annually.
The Board normally meets monthly with the Director to review the administration and activities of the Department. The meetings are conducted in accordance with Oklahoma’s “Open Meetings Law.” In addition to tours of facilities taken in conjunction with regular Board meetings, Board members are encouraged to conduct at least one unannounced visit to a facility or district probation and parole office per year.
The power and duties of the Board include the following:

Members:

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Employee and Volunteer Awards

2009 Correctional Officer of the Year: Theresa Tipton, Correctional Security Officer IV at Eddie Warrior Correctional Center, Female Offender Operations, Field Operations Division.

Sergeant Tipton began her career in 1994. She is a valued member of the Hostage Negotiation Team. In January 2009 her team participated in the Hostage Negotiation Competition in San Marcos, Texas where they received first place. Since Sergeant Tipton is bilingual, she also assists as interpreter for parole hearings and other areas when needed. She sets an example for others by always being willing to assist with duties outside the scope of those assigned to her. Sergeant Tipton is a respected leader known for her high level of calm demeanor and professionalism.


2009 Correctional Officer Supervisor of the Year: Virgil W. Young, Correctional Security Manager I, Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Field Operations Division.

Captain Young began his career with the agency in 1995. Captain Young has attended the Center for Correctional Officer Studies, Law Enforcement Driver Training, C.L.E.E.T. Certification, Gang Information Training and Leadership Training. Captain Young has coordinated several fund raising events for the facility. During his 14 years with the agency, Captain Young has earned the respect of the officers he supervises by being a strong leader who is always willing to work alongside his officers on any task.
He has assisted Pittsburg County Jail during the two riots that occurred in their facility. In his off hours, Captain Young serves as a youth minister at his church in Krebs, Oklahoma.


2009 Probation and Parole Officer of the Year: Larry J. Bryant, Probation and Parole Officer III, Southeast District Community Corrections.

Officer Bryant began his career with the Department of Corrections in 1991 as a Correctional Security Officer at Howard McLeod Correctional Center. After graduating from college in 2000 he was hired as a Probation and Parole Officer for Southeast District Community Corrections. His current work station is in Pushmataha County; however when necessary he also works in Choctaw and Atoka counties assisting with caseloads left vacant by recent officer retirements. Officer Bryant is a CLEET certified firearms instructor and Armorer for the district. He is a dedicated family man and active in his local community. He serves as a deacon in his church and as a volunteer with the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes where he works with young people in the community.


Outstanding Employee of the Year: Cindy Leonard, Administrative Services Division.

This year has been a challenging one for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. With state revenues down, all agency budgets were
deeply cut. The problem facing DOC administration was how to reduce costs while protecting our employees’ jobs and continuing to
provide the services expected. All avenues were explored and Cindy Leonard was given the job of collecting data, crunching numbers and
presenting reports to the administrative team on how each suggestion would affect agency employees. When the decision was made to offer a Voluntary Buy Out to all retirement eligible employees, it was again Cindy Leonard who had a major role in:

As individuals signed on for the buyout, Cindy set up a spreadsheet which was utilized to track each component of the process from initial interest through the date the contract was signed. Cindy did not stop there. She compiled a list of employees, by work location, who would be retiring in conjunction with the buyout and sent it to every Human Resource Management Specialists in the field.
As other state agencies received word that cuts would be needed, they contacted OPM and were referred to the Department of Corrections, where several of the forms and processes developed by Cindy Leonard were shared with them, a fact that saved many manpower hours by not having to “reinvent the wheel.”
Cindy’s vast personnel experience coupled with an honest and caring attitude has allowed her to assist numerous staff members as they have faced some personal situations concerning health issues for themselves or their family members. She can always be counted on to be confidential and discreet, no matter how sensitive the matter. These actions demonstrate not only professionalism, but also set a standard that others can follow.


Professional Excellence Recipient: Donald Kiffin, Treatment and Rehabilitative Services Division.

Dr. Donald Kiffin’s most recent professional accolade is his election to the office of President Elect of the Correctional Education Association
(CEA). Previously, in that same organization, he has served as Vice-President for two years and Region V Director (over a four-state
region), for four years. All of those offices have earned him a seat on the National/International CEA Board of Directors.
Dr. Kiffin has dedicated his life’s career to corrections, and more specifically, education within corrections. He began his career with corrections in 1976 right out of college and has been with the Department since that time (33 years). During this time Dr. Kiffin:

Following receipt of a 1.1 million dollar federal educational grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education entitled, “Training Ex-Offenders as Entrepreneurs,” the education unit selected Dr. Kiffin to coordinate the grant. He developed an outstanding life skills and entrepreneur program for offenders, a program which has received national attention. This was largely brought about by his knowledge and skills related to this project. As a result of his efforts, dozens have attained meaningful employment and have started businesses which contribute back to society. Dr. Kiffin currently serves on the Workforce Staff Solutions Team in conjunction with the Governor’s Council for Workforce and Economic Development and the Department of Commerce. He is also a part of the Second Chance Network, which is currently developing a Professional Association for Reentry Professionals.
Dr. Kiffin is a former Oklahoma and National/International Correctional Education Association Teacher of the Year.


Medal of Valor Recipient: Sergeant Shelia Moses, Dick Conner Correctional Center.

On Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at approximately 12:30 a.m., Sergeant Shelia Moses was viciously attacked by an offender on Unit A & C, while conducting a lockdown count. The offender had manipulated his cell door in order to gain access to Sergeant Moses. Sergeant Moses saw the offender and verbally confronted the offender as to why he was out of his cell. The offender grabbed her shirt and began striking her. As she struggled against her assailant and fought back, she was able to key her radio and make a brief plea for security.
Sergeant Moses’ quick thinking and alertness clearly saved her life. Sergeant Moses is to be commended for her heroic actions.
Therefore, as a result of this extraordinary exhibition of heroism and courage, R.B. Dick Conner Correctional Center wishes to recognize Sergeant Shelia Moses for her Courage and Valor.


Medal of Valor Recipient: Lieutenant Jason Clements, Ardmore Community Work Center, Southeast District Community Corrections.

On March 2, 2009 while in route to Southeast District Community Corrections in McAlester, Oklahoma for an interview, Lieutenant Jason Clements drove up to an automobile accident involving three vehicles. After pulling over to the side of the road, Lt. Clements viewed the scene of the accident, recognized that emergency vehicles were not on the scene and immediately called 911. After describing to the 911 operator that there were three vehicles involved and that injuries were present, Lt. Clements approached the first vehicle. This vehicle contained a female that Lt. Clements determined did not have life threatening injuries. He spoke with her calmly, telling her to breathe slowly and help was on the way. He then approached the second vehicle that appeared to have a young man trapped inside. He then informed 911 dispatch that they would need the “Jaws of Life” and any other emergency equipment available as soon as possible. Lt. Clements talked with the young man telling him he would be fine and that help was on the way. He then tried to free him from the car, but found he could not. Lt. Clements then tried to make the young man as comfortable as possible by gathering loose clothing from the wrecked car and placing it against the young man’s open wounds to stop his bleeding. When the emergency vehicles arrived, Lt. Clements assisted them by helping remove pieces of the car as it was cut away.


Volunteer of the Year: Barbara Green, Mabel Bassett Correctional Center.

Volunteer Barbara Green served for 25 years at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center (MBCC). She began her career through a desire to give hope and encouragement to those in need. After contacting the chaplain at MBCC, her journey began. The initial plan was to start a correspondence ministry by writing to offenders who had no family support. Little did she know that this would be the beginning of a life time of love and commitment.
Barbara was married to a minister and they both spent time in East Texas as pastors and attended seminary. During this time the young couple was approved to become foreign missionaries. They were sent to Costa Rica to complete one year of language school, which allowed them to become missionaries for the next five years in Mexico and subsequently Panama. Upon returning to the United States as licensed counselors, the couple opened a family counseling center in Houston,Texas, and provided support and guidance through family and marriage counseling. Retiring and moving to Oklahoma, Barbara and her husband continued to serve as counselors at Henderson Hills Baptist Church.
During her 25 years of service, she enjoyed facilitating for Prison Fellowship as one of their instructors, providing in- house workshop training to offenders and conducting numerous bible studies. During the early years, Barbara helped regularly with the Children and Mothers Program (CAMP) as well as provided communion for women on death row, as one of the few volunteers who had clearance to the death row area.
When Barbara was asked why she gives of herself, her reply was, “It is my desire to help those in need. To provide comfort and peace, and most importantly hope. To see the women get a diploma for parenting is extremely heart warming as I know for some of them it is the first time they have ever completed something in their lives. It gives me great satisfaction to know that I have helped someone in need along the way.” (Deceased September 26, 2009).


2009 Nurse of the Year: Darlene Lowrance, LPN, Dick Conner Correctional Center.

Ms. Lowrance has worked for Oklahoma Department of Corrections at Dick Conner Correctional Center since May of 2006. She has been described as a diligent nurse who stays until the job is done. With a bare minimum of nursing staff and administrative assistance, her tenacious leadership and team building skills kept the medical unit afloat and ensured patient care was delivered without interruption. Her positive attitude and exceptional work ethic has led her to being selected as “DOC Nurse of the Year in 2009.”
On a personal note, Ms. Lowrance is a success not only in nursing but in raising her three children. She is very proud to be a mother, grandmother and a nurse and we congratulate her on her many accomplishments.


2009 Teacher of the Year: Ida Doyle, Dick Conner Correctional Center.

Ida Doyle is Oklahoma’s Correctional Education Association’s 2009-2010 Teacher of the Year.
In 1987, Ms. Doyle graduated from Red Rock High School located in northern Oklahoma and went on to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University, where she received a Bachelor Degree in Education in 1992. Ms. Doyle began her teaching career at Boise City Public School (BCPS) in the fall of 1992, teaching biology, physical science, and physical education. She was also the head coach for all women’s sports (grades 7-12) while at BCPS.
In 1993, she was hired as the head women’s coach and health teacher at Woodland Public School. She remained there until September 1996, at which time, she accepted the position of correctional officer with the Dick Conner Correctional Center (DCCC). She continued working as a correctional officer until August 1998, when she accepted a correctional teacher position at the facility. While teaching fulltime and raising two sons, Ms. Doyle returned to college and received a Master’s Degree in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma in 2002.
Ms. Doyle currently provides literacy, ABE, and GED classes, oversees the leisure library, teaches life skills at the minimum security unit, and is an instructor for the facility teaching Cultural Diversity. She has been the College Coordinator for the facility since 2007. Through her efforts, DCCC’s college program has grown and flourished. Ms. Doyle stays active in her community by volunteering as a coach in baseball and basketball youth programs (for the last ten years). Ms. Doyle believes education is a lifelong process and sees it as a positive influence in turning people’s lives around.

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Highlights

OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY - ONE HUNDRED YEARS (1908 - 2008)

Prior to, and extending into post statehood, Oklahoma’s convicted felons were incarcerated at Lansing, Kansas, under contractual agreement. Oklahoma’s first legislative session resulted in authorization for the Board of Prison Control to purchase land at McAlester, Oklahoma, and to begin construction of a penitentiary using prison labor.
On October 14, 1908, a group of 100 inmates were transferred from Kansas to McAlester to begin construction of a permanent penitentiary. This contingent of inmates were first housed at a federal jail in McAlester until they constructed a stockade cell house to occupy. This structure was near the entrance of the current rodeo arena and structural remnants can still be observed.
While the birth of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary occurred in 1908, with construction of the temporary quarters, 1909 saw the influx of several hundred more inmates from Kansas and the earnest construction of the actual prison. The wall is 18 to 20 feet high, 18 inches thick, built of concrete, reinforced with steel and sunk 8 feet into the ground. The original structure, still standing, included 11 guard towers, each three stories high; at some points along the wall, the concrete piles go as deep as 35 feet below the grade to the foundation. More than 6,357 cubic yards of concrete were used and over two million cubic yards of dirt and rock were removed for the wall alone. The cost of the original structure was $108,644.


OKLAHOMA STATE REFORMATORY - ONE HUNDRED YEARS (1909-2009)

The Oklahoma State Reformatory was established by an act of the legislature in March 1909, due in large part to the urging of Kate Barnard, Commissioner of Charities and Corrections, who saw the need for a reformatory for young inmates. The first 60 inmates were received from Oklahoma State Penitentiary on April 22, 1910. The emphasis on moving the institution towards its reformative ideals occurred during the term of Governor James B. Robertson[ 1919-1923] who stated in a letter to all judges in the district courts that no prisoner would be confined at Granite who is over the age of 23 years, who has been committed previously for two or more offenses, and has a sentence of more than ten years.
The first warden of the Reformatory was Samuel H. Flourney. Clara Waters served as warden from 1927 until 1935 and is recognized as the first female warden in the country for a large state reformatory for males.
Lakeside School became the first fully accredited K-12 school to be operated within the confines of an adult prison in 1947 when it was accredited by the Oklahoma State Department of Education. Lakeside School was also the first racially integrated school in the state, starting in 1949.


1940

The McAlester News-Capital makes the first announcement of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary’s First Annual Rodeo, advertised as the biggest “behind the walls” rodeo in the world, scheduled to be held October 12-13, 1940.


1972

The lawsuit, Battles vs. Anderson, changed the history of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. The suit was filed April 24, 1972 by Bobby Battles, an inmate serving time for Grand Larceny at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary out of Garvin County. The lawsuit created changes ranging from the operation of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in its policies and procedures affecting the treatment and rehabilitation, medical care, education and training to the basic care of the state’s inmate population.
A federal court in 1978 found conditions at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed before the 1973 riot, was changed to a class action suit. U.S. District Judge Luther Bohannon put the Department of Corrections under federal control. Active supervision under the lawsuit was finally dismissed during Director Larry Meachum’s term (1979-1987). The last issue of the lawsuit, which was medical care for offenders, was settled 27 years later, in 2001.

The use of the automation to process information for the Department of Corrections began in 1972. The first application was a simple listing of inmates.


1977

Female correctional officers were employed and allowed to work in male institutions.

1978

The Clara Waters Community Corrections Center was opened as an all female facility and later changed to co-ed in September, 1983 and remained co-ed until 1992. On May 9, 2003, the facility was severely damaged by a tornado, forcing relocation of the population. The facility was reopened in 2008.


2003

Oklahoma becomes the first correctional system in the nation to place offender records on the internet.


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Interesting Facts

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Director’s Office

The Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections is the agency’s chief executive administrator and is responsible for the overall management and administration of the agency. The position provides the leadership and vision for the agency and is appointed by the Oklahoma Board of Corrections. The Director’s Office is comprised of the Director, an Administrative Assistant and two Executive Assistants.
Other positions that directly report to the Director are as follows: Associate Director of Field Operations, Associate Director of Administrative Services, Deputy of Community Corrections, Deputy Director of Treatment and Rehabilitation Services, Deputy Director of Community Sentencing, Administrator of Internal Affairs, General Counsel, Civil Rights Administrator, Administrator of Executive Communications and Administrator, Internal Audit.
Pam Ramsey serves as Executive Assistant and is responsible for providing administrative support to the Director and ensuring the administrative day to day operations of the office, which includes communication and interaction with legislative leadership, government entities, the public, and executive and senior level personnel; handling of sensitive and confidential information; preparation of reports and correspondence; coordination of special projects and activities, and other duties to assist the Director in carrying out his responsibilities. She
also serves as the liaison to the Oklahoma Board of Corrections.
Neville Massie is an Executive Assistant to the Director. Her primary responsibility is to serve as the agency’s liaison with members of the legislature, legislative staff, other governmental agency employees; as well as external civic and professional organizations.Ms. Massie monitors legislation that may impact the department, solicits legislative initiatives from agency Executive Staff and represents the department at legislative committee meetings. She provides regular legislative status reports to the Board of Corrections, department Executive Staff and Upper Management staff.
In an effort to increase legislators knowledge and understanding of agency operations and issues, she coordinates facility tours for legislators
and their staff.
During 2009 the department was successful in securing passage of the majority of agency legislative initiatives. Ms. Massie also significantly increased both the number of facility tours and the number of legislators participating in tours of our institutions.

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Employee Rights and Relations

The primary focus of the Employee Rights and Relations Unit is to serve the employees of the agency by providing technical expertise regarding the department’s affirmative action plan and assistance in adherence to employment related rules/regulations, policies, procedures, laws, and agency practices. The unit provides training and development to all employees and supervisors on Civil Rights rules, regulations, policy procedures and laws, aids in conflict resolution, provides mediation information, and assists in resolving issues and conflict informally.
The Unit investigates formal discrimination grievances which come under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sexual harassment, Americans with Disabilities Act complaints, cultural diversity and other related issues. In addition, the Unit assists all facility Affirmative Action Committees with problem solving, training, current information and updates.
The unit consists of team members, Ms. Joyce Perry, Civil Rights Administrator I, Ms. Kim Moon, Secretary V, and Elvin Baum, Civil Rights Administrator, and is available to any staff member and/or members of the public who may have questions or in need of information pertaining to the services provided.

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Executive Communications

The Office of Executive Communications serves as the central point of contact for information about the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and its facilities to the media and the general public. The mission of the Office is to provide accurate, transparent and timely information to build public support and enhance public awareness, while promoting positive change.
This office is responsible for media relations, various informational publications and reports, to include facility brochures, fact sheets and the production of the Department’s quarterly magazine. This also includes the planning and implementing of special projects and numerous training events.
The Office of Executive Communications is responsible for the Department’s historical archives, the production of the Oklahoma Department
of Corrections History Book and the implementation of Leadership Academy, which is the nation’s first citizen’s academy for corrections.
This office also provides a variety of communications services to the staff as needed. The Office of Executive Communications staff is creative and proficient at problem solving and generating communications that engage and inform various audiences.

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General Counsel

The Office of General Counsel acts as the primary liaison with the Attorney General’s Office in matters of civil litigation when the agency or its employees are sued. The Office represents the agency at Merit Protection Commission hearings and Risk Management, oversees the submission of agency administrative rulings until finalized by the Office of Administrative Rules in the Secretary of State’s office responds to Inmate Lawsuits (assigned by the Attorney General’s Office), reviews all private prison contracts, assists in gathering information for Attorney General Office, reviews all formal discipline action, assists employees in preparing for depositions and trial and gives legal advice to agency upper management as needed.
The Administrative Review Unit is responsible for reviewing, investigating and responding to inmate misconduct and grievance appeals, which are submitted to the director for final review. This review is considered to be the last step in the internal administrative process. Inmates are required to exhaust their administrative remedies prior to filing litigation in the court system. The review conducted at both the facility and departmental level assists in preventing unnecessary litigation. Hundreds of inmate letters are received in Administrative Review every year with a response forwarded for each one received. This unit is also responsible for conducting training for all staff involved in the disciplinary process, and continually conducts pre-service training in the disciplinary and grievance processes. The unit serves as a contact point for field staff, family members and legislators who have questions regarding the department's disciplinary process and grievance process.

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Internal Affairs

The purpose of Internal Affairs is to investigate criminal wrongdoing or administrative violations with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC); apprehend fugitives from DOC; collect and analyze raw information into meaningful intelligence for correctional action; provide security oversight to the department’s administration building; work in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies to arrange the return of departmental fugitives and parole violators apprehended outside the state of Oklahoma; and provide teletype service, to include online validations, through the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (OLETS).

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

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Administrative Services

The Division of Administrative Services consists of the following units:

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

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Field Operations

The Division of Field Operations is comprised of Female Offender Operations, Institutions, Operational Services, Private Prisons and Jail Administration, Procedures and Accreditation, Safety Administration, and Dietary Services.
These entities provide direct supervision of all agency institutions, to include both male and female offenders at minimum, medium, and maximum security, and death row, as well as female offenders under community corrections supervision; three contract private prisons housing Oklahoma male offenders and oversight of the remaining three private prisons which contract for out-of-state offenders; in addition to offenders in contract county jail programs. The division also oversees classification and population, Central Transportation Unit (CTU), sentence administration and offender records, sex offender registration, Agri-Services, Oklahoma Correctional Industries, and construction and maintenance.
Field Operations Administrative staff work closely with members of the legislature and their staff, other state agencies and law enforcement entities, as well as members of the public to respond to questions and provide information on agency-related matters and offender specific concerns.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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Female Offender Operations


The Oklahoma Department of Corrections established the Division of Female Offender Operations in December 2008. This division faces a unique challenge. While the division is responsible for all operational issues associated with the oversight of female offenders from reception through reentry at two correctional centers, two community corrections centers, one community work center, and two contract residential centers, the division also has a parallel mission.
The division’s parallel mission is to “Reduce Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate to at, or below, the national average while protecting the
public, the employees, and the offenders.”

ACCOMPLISHMENTS


Eddie Warrior Correctional Center

Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center (EWCC) is on the original site of the Indian Mission School Haloche Industrial Institute in Taft, Oklahoma. In 1909, Stephen Douglas Russell founded the Deaf, Blind, and Orphan Institute (DB&O) which housed deaf, blind, and orphaned children.
From 1909 until 1961, the DB&O Institute was self-sufficient. The state operated children’s homes under many different names until May of 1986 when legislative action transferred the facility to the Department of Corrections. The facility became the George Nigh Staff Development Center handling the department’s pre-service and in-service staff training. During the 1988 special legislative session, called to address prison overcrowding, the center was designated as a minimum security prison for female offenders.
EWCC is named after Dr. Eddie Walter Warrior, business manager for the DB&O Institute.
EWCC houses minimum-security female offenders. The facility is divided into two general population units and the Regimented Treatment
Program (RTP), a 12 month military style program with substance abuse and domestic violence components added to address addiction and family violence issues. The RTP unit is housed in one of the original buildings built for the DB&O Institute in 1909.
The Regimented Treatment Program is an 82-bed substance abuse treatment program. The program provides a highly structured drug free correctional environment conducive to positive behavior changes. Offenders are referred to the program through the sentencing court and assessed by case managers at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center and/or through referrals by case managers at EWCC or other female correctional facilities. All assessments are based on the offender’s needs and criminal risk. The program operates as a therapeutic community
where each member is responsible for not only her own behavior, but for the community as a whole. The program is divided into four (4) phases with each phase having its own expectation and responsibilities.
Other programs include: Helping Women Recover, HIV/ Aids Peer Education, Play Day and Early Childhood Development classes.
The Jacobs Trading Company is a private prison industry that operates at the EWCC. The company purchases damaged and/or returned items and re-packages them for resale at discount stores. Fifteen female offenders are assigned employment with the company and are paid minimum wage. Offenders learn to develop skills training and work ethics as a means of improving employability after release.

EDDIE WARRIOR
Eddie Warrior was appointed business manager for the Deaf, Blind, and Orphan Institute by Governor Roy Turner. Warrior was later promoted to principal and subsequently to superintendent of the Taft School System in 1961. The E. W. Warrior Junior High School was dedicated in his honor in 1979. He retired in February, 1979, after 18 years of service. He died in June, 1979.


Mabel Bassett Correctional Center

The Mabel Bassett Correctional Center is the only maximum security institution for women in the state of Oklahoma. The center was originally located in northeast Oklahoma City, adjacent to the Department of Corrections Administration Building. Opened as a community treatment center in January 1974, the center was changed to a medium security facility in 1978. In 1982, Mabel Bassett was converted to include maximum security. Offenders assigned to Mabel Bassett range from minimum security to Death Row.
Additionally, Mabel Bassett Correctional Center supervises the security of all Department of Corrections offenders requiring hospitalization, through an agency contract with the OU Medical Center. The unit also supervises the holding area where offenders from all Department of
Corrections facilities are held awaiting medical appointments at the Medical Center.
Mabel Bassett Correctional Center houses the Assessment and Reception Center for females incarcerated in the state of Oklahoma. Mabel Bassett Assessment and Reception Center (MBARC) is a maximum security unit that receives females sentenced to prison by the courts. During the reception period that ranges from approximately ten to thirty days, staff determines through various assessments which Department of Corrections facility the offender will be assigned to and what program criteria they meet.

MABEL BASSETT
Mabel Bassett served as the third Commissioner of Charities and Corrections. She was a reformer and a diligent lobbyist like her predecessor, Kate Barnard. During her tenure, Ms. Bassett worked to establish and maintain standards for juvenile and adult correctional facilities, and also the state’s mental institutions. She was responsible for establishing the State Pardon and Parole Board in 1944 in an effort to create a more equitable system for inmates to be reviewed for a pardon, leave, or parole. She was also involved in building the facility that once housed women at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary with funds raised through legislative appropriation. Among her other accomplishments, Ms. Bassett fought for the statute, enacted by the Eighth Oklahoma Legislature, making wife and child desertion a felony. She was also responsible for the Industrial School for Negro Boys at Boley, Oklahoma, which is known today as the John Lilley Correctional Center. The Club Women of Oklahoma recognized her by appointing her to the State Federation of Women’s Clubs. For her outstanding services for the betterment of mankind, she was inducted into Oklahoma’s “Hall of Fame” by the Oklahoma Memorial Association on Statehood Day (November 16) in 1937.

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Female Offender Community Corrections and Residential Services
Hillside Community Corrections Center

The Hillside Community Corrections Center was originally opened as the Mabel Bassett Community Treatment Center in January, 1974 and changed to a medium security facility in 1978. In 1982, the center was converted to include maximum security offenders.
On May 1, 2003, the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center relocated to the former private prison facility in McLoud, Oklahoma. The former facility was then converted to the Hillside Community Corrections Center.

Kate Barnard Community Corrections Center

The Kate Barnard Community Treatment Center was opened in June, 1977. The center is housed in a former motel located in northwest Oklahoma City. The facility is a u-shaped two story building which houses the residents and staff. Food service is located in front of the main building, with the maintenance shop and storage area located behind the main building.


Altus Community Work Center


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Institutions

The Division of Institutions provides oversight, direction, and supervision to the fifteen state operated male facilities housing minimum, medium, and maximum security offenders.
The division is responsible for ensuring that the facilities under its jurisdiction meet the agency mission of protecting the public, the employees, and the offenders by providing a safe, secure, and healthy environment in which to work and live. This office provides oversight of fiscal management and ensures facilities effectively manage their budgets.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Charles E. “Bill” Johnson Correctional Center

The Charles E. “Bill” Johnson Correctional Center (BJCC) is the newest of the 17 facilities operated by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. The facility houses 444 adult male, felon drug offenders, ages 18-40. The minimum-security facility consists of six metal buildings and two modular buildings inside the compound and seven buildings to include maintenance, warehouse, storage, greenhouse, and a Skills Center outside the perimeter fence. Inside the compound are the administrative offices, medical facilities, a dining hall, the education building, laundry, two program buildings, and two housing units. On September 5, 1995, the facility received the first trainees for the Regimented Treatment Program.
Opened in 2000, the CareerTech Skills Center is utilized to provide programs for offenders in electrical and plumbing professions, which supplies them with a viable employment option as they return to society.
The dedication of the new multipurpose building occurred on November 29, 2001. The new building includes a state of the art laundry as well as providing additional space for programming and recreational activities. In May 2009 two modular buildings replaced portable buildings housing contract treatment providers and program space.

CHARLES E. “BILL” JOHNSON
Charles E. “Bill” Johnson, for whom the facility is named, was a catalyst in the pursuit of the correctional center designed to impact drug offenders. When he learned about the possibility of such a program being placed in a community in Oklahoma, Mr. Johnson recruited his friends and business associates to help in the pursuit of making the facility a reality. Unfortunately, Mr. Johnson died on February 18, 1995, at the age of 66, and was unable to see the completion of the facility he had worked so hard and faithfully to bring to his hometown.

Dick Conner Correctional Center

The post OSP riot master plan included a medium security facility to be constructed in the Tulsa area. It was eventually decided that the facility would be built just north of Hominy, Oklahoma, within the boundaries of the original Osage Indian Reservation. Originally, the facility was to be named the “Hominy Medium Security Facility.” It was next decided that the facility would be named Jess Dunn Correctional Center in honor of the former OSP warden killed in an escape attempt. However, a 1977 Joint Senate-House Resolution renamed the facility, for the third and final time, the Dick Conner Correctional Center. The facility’s namesake is R. B. “Dick” Conner, a former local Sheriff of Osage County and former OSP warden. The facility was built for $12.8 million. Dick Conner Correctional Center received its first offenders in August, 1979, and reached its original design capacity of 400 during the spring of 1980.

DICK CONNER
R. B. “Dick” Conner started in law enforcement as the Sheriff of Osage County in 1932. He was later appointed warden at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in August 1943 by Governor Robert S. Kerr. He retired after four years and returned to work as a sheriff’s deputy in Tulsa County. Conner died in 1955 at the age of 63 after almost 30 years of service in corrections and law enforcement. Dick Conner Correctional Center is a medium security facility located in Hominy, Oklahoma. It opened in 1979.

Howard McLeod Correctional Center

HMCC is a minimum security institution located approximately 30 miles Southeast of Atoka, Oklahoma. Construction of the institution began in November, 1961, and was completed a year later. The facility was constructed by offenders from Stringtown Correctional Center (currently Mack Alford Correctional Center), who were supervised by Stringtown Vo-Tech instructors. The center is a 5,000 acre site. HMCC was under the direction of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary until July, 1973.
In 1978, a name change was implemented by the Oklahoma State Legislature, from McLeod Honor Farm to Howard McLeod Correctional Center. The building now known as west dorm was built from Oklahoma State Penitentiary brick and lumber saw milled from trees harvested from state land. HMCC is the only correctional center in Oklahoma that has ever utilized a saw mill to produce lumber.

HOWARD MCLEOD
The Howard McLeod Correctional Center (HMCC) was named after Howard C. McLeod, who started in corrections at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, Oklahoma. He later served as chief sergeant and assistant deputy at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary from 1940 to 1955. He was appointed warden at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and served in that capacity from 1955 to 1959. McLeod’s concern for meaningful labor for offenders led to the purchase of an “Honor Farm” outside Farris, Oklahoma, in Atoka county. That farm, known as the McLeod Honor Farm, later became the Howard C. McLeod Correctional Center. McLeod died in 1959 at the age of 63.

Jackie Brannon Correctional Center

In one sense, Jackie Brannon Correctional Center (JBCC) was the third state correctional center, originally opening in 1927. But it operated as a trusty unit of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, on OSP grounds, until being officially established as a stand-alone minimum security institution on July 1, 1985. The facility is named in honor of Jackie Brannon, who began his correctional career in 1961 as a correctional officer at OSP. In 1981, he was promoted to Deputy Warden of the OSP Trusty Unit, in which capacity he served until his death in 1984.It is this same trusty unit, since expanded, that bears his name.
JBCC is located on 1,300 acres in the northwest section of McAlester, Oklahoma. The facility has three housing units that house 737 inmates. The facility sends out Prisoner Public Works Program crews to assist with work in the city, county, and with the Department of Transportation. There is also a six month Substance Abuse Treatment Program for offenders who meet the enrollment requirements.? Burial rites for all indigent Oklahoma offenders are performed at JBCC.

JACKIE BRANNON
Jackie Brannon started in corrections in 1961 as a correctional officer at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. His career progressed to be named Deputy Associate Warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Trustee Unit. He died in 1984. Jackie Brannon Correctional Center is a minimum security facility located in McAlester. It opened in 1985 as a separate institution from Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

James Crabtree Correctional Center

James Crabtree Correctional Center is located in Helena, Oklahoma on the grounds of the old Connell Agriculture College. The institution has a history that precedes statehood. The facility was originally established in 1904, and has served the people of the state of Oklahoma as a county high school, a junior college, an orphanage, and a Department of Human Services training school for boys. On May 24, 1982, the former Helena State School for Boys was transferred to the ODOC as the James Crabtree Correctional Center.
This facility was named in honor of James Crabtree, a former warden.
Since the transfer of this facility to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections the James Crabtree Correctional Center has undergone three major construction phases. It currently is composed of eight housing units, and houses medium and minimum security offenders. James Crabtree Correctional Center is the only medium security prison in Oklahoma that primarily operates as an open dormitory style facility.

JAMES CRABTREE
James Crabtree started in corrections at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary as an officer. His career was temporarily interrupted by the Korean War in 1950. He returned to corrections in 1952 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. In July 1973, Crabtree was appointed Associate Warden of the Ouachita Vocational Training Camp. He was named Warden of the Ouachita Correctional Center in 1978, a position he held until he retired in 1981.

Jess Dunn Correctional Center

The Jess Dunn institution was originally constructed in 1930 and used as a mental hospital for black patients only. Through the years, the institution has been used as a tuberculosis sanitarium, a juvenile girl’s facility, and a juvenile co-ed home. In April 1980, the facility was transferred from the Department of Human Services to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC).
At one time Dick Conner Correctional Center was to be named after Jess Dunn, prior to legislative intervention. Thus, it seemed only logical to name this facility, the next acquisition subsequent to the Conner facility, after Jess Dunn. Jess Dunn served as warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary from 1938 until August 10, 1941, when he was killed during a shootout resulting from an offender escape attempt. Also killed were a sheriff’s jailer (a former OSP guard) and 3 of the 4 offenders involved in the escape attempt. The remaining offender was later executed for Jess Dunn’s murder.
The institution is located on approximately 1,100 acres and is comprised of six major buildings that house residents and administration. Maintenance shops, OCI farm complex, laundry, vo-tech, supply, and other support operations are housed in other assorted buildings on the institutional grounds. Originally, the facility was co-ed with approximately 302 of its population being female. The ODOC no longer operates co-ed facilities.
Another interesting twist to JDCC is that it shares a warden and associated administrative staff with the Eddie Warrior Correctional Center (EWCC), a female facility. EWCC is a separate facility from the JDCC but they are separated by only a few hundred yards. Together, they are known today as the Taft Unit. This merger occurred on January 1, 2001. The positions of business manager, human resource specialist, warden’s assistant and training officer serve in a dual capacity at both facilities.

JESS DUNN
Jess Dunn served as warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary from 1938 to 1941. Dunn was killed in a shoot out that resulted from an offender escape attempt on August 10, 1941. Jess Dunn Correctional Center is a minimum security facility located in Taft, Oklahoma. It opened in 1980.

Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center

The area now occupied by Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center, formerly Ouachita Correctional Center, dates back to 1933 when it served as the home of the Civil Conservation Corps. The facility grounds were later utilized by the U.S. Forestry Department and, in the early 1960s, by the Hodgen Job Corps.
The facility is located in Hodgen, Oklahoma on the northern edge of the Ouachita National Forest. The town of Poteau is approximately 28 miles to the North.
In 1969, the Federal Government made the decision to demolish the existing campsite, but the plan was delayed when legislation was sponsored by Senator James E. Hamilton to introduce a better plan for the site. Camp Hodgen, as it was called then, was the first offender training facility in the U.S. offering vocational-technical training by the State Department of Vo-Tech Education in cooperation with the State Department of Corrections.
In 1971, the first offender Vo-Tech students arrived at the facility. The JEHCC is the largest correctional vocational training program in the state. The Vo-Tech program has grown to a total of 8 different skill areas currently available at the facility: industrial electricity, air conditioning and refrigeration, welding, building construction, masonry, building maintenance, industrial maintenance, transmission repair, front end/suspension and engine performance. Training in an academic enhancement program and a comprehensive reintegration program is also provided as part of Career Tech Skills Center. The state department of Career Technology Education provides training opportunities to all eligible offenders at no cost.
In addition to providing training opportunities for offenders, CareerTech also provides the Oklahoma DOC and other state agencies, assistance with special construction projects and repairs on state vehicles. This service has saved state, county and municipal agencies many valuable tax dollars for repairs and preventative maintenance of precious agency resources. JEHCC has benefited immensely from having a CareerTech center on site. Several facility buildings have been built either partially or entirely with skilled offender labor provided through the training programs.

JIM E. HAMILTON
Former Oklahoma State Senator, Jim Hamilton served in the Senate from 1967 until 1976. In 1984 after an eight year absence from the legislature, he was elected to the State House of Representatives where he served until 1998.
The Ouachita Correctional Center was officially changed to the Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center, in honor of Senator Hamilton on December 10, 1998.

Joseph Harp Correctional Center

The Joseph Harp Correctional Center is a medium security institution located near the town of Lexington, in central Oklahoma. The facility officially opened on September 26, 1978, and received its first offenders two days later. The site of the facility had been used by the Navy as a firing range during World War II. After the war, the land was turned over to the Mental Health Department, which in turn transferred it to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 1971.
Joseph Harp Correctional Center is named in honor and memory of Warden Joseph Harp who served as warden at the Oklahoma State Reformatory from 1949 until 1969. Warden Joseph Harp was clearly an innovative leader and professional in the field of corrections. Under Warden Harp, Oklahoma State Reformatory was the first institution to establish a fully accredited academic High School behind prison walls. Warden Harp recognized that one of the greatest needs of many offenders was a high school education. As early as 1950, Warden Harp proposed in a legislative report the need for: a Department of Corrections; a merit system of employment; a statewide probation system staffed with competent officers who would make pre-sentence investigations; a reception center for all felons coming into a prison system; and a full time pardon and parole board.

JOSEPH HARP
Joseph Harp served as warden at the Oklahoma State Reformatory from 1949 until 1969. Warden Joseph Harp was clearly an innovative leader and professional in the field of corrections. Under Warden Harp, Oklahoma State Reformatory was the first institution to establish a fully accredited academic High School behind prison walls. Warden Harp recognized that one of the greatest needs of many inmates was a high school education.
As early as 1950, Warden Harp proposed in a legislative report the need for: A Department of Corrections; a merit system of employment; a statewide probation system staffed with competent officers who would make pre-sentence investigations; a reception center for all felons coming into the prison system; and a full time pardon and parole board.

John Lilley Correctional Center

John Lilley Correctional Center (JLCC) is located on a 256 acre site, one mile east of Boley, Oklahoma on State Highway 62 in Okfuskee County. Geographically, the facility is located almost in the center of the state, its location being essentially rural, yet it is a relatively short distance between the two largest cities in the state, Oklahoma City and Tulsa; between the Turner Turnpike on the north and Interstate 40 on the south.
JLCC was first built as a tuberculosis sanitarium/hospital for blacks in 1923. In 1925, the facility became the State Training School for Negro Boys and housed black males who had previously been incarcerated at the Boys Training School in McAlester. The institution was integrated in 1965, and the name was changed to Boley State School for Boys.

JOHN LILLEY
John H. Lilley, for whom the facility is named, was appointed superintendent of the facility at its inception. He remained as superintendent until his death in 1933. Lilley, himself called the “Orphan Boy,” was known to love the kids he served. He died at his residence on the Training School campus as a result of declining health following an auto accident. State Commissioner of Charities and Corrections at that time was Mabel Bassett, and she delivered a eulogy at John Lilley’s funeral. Permission was granted by the Governor and the State Board of Public Affairs for John Lilley to be buried upon institutional grounds and a monument presently stands at the entrance of the facility marking John Lilley’s gravesite.

Lexington Assessment and Reception Center and Lexington Correctional Center

The Lexington Correctional Center was opened in 1971. It consisted of a collection of wooden naval barracks hastily constructed during late World War II. It initially had a capacity of 120 inmates.
Although the facility opened in 1971, it remained obscure with virtually no documented history until 1977 when the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center (LARC) opened adjacent to the Lexington Correctional Center (LCC). Since the opening of LARC, both LARC and LCC have been under purview of a common warden and have become virtually synonymous. Most staff refer to the reception unit as “LARC” (pronounced “lark”) and the remaining housing units as “Lex.”
The Lexington Assessment and Reception Center began construction in 1976 as a part of the Oklahoma Master Plan, authored by F. Warren Benton, Ph.D.
The maximum security receiving, medical, support services, and administrative core building composed Phase I; Phase II constituted three medium security housing units.

Mack Alford Correctional Center

In the early 1930s, the Mack Alford Correctional Center was used as a sub-prison of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma. Offenders assigned were “trustees” and worked the farm and cattle. The sub-penitentiary was established for four basic reasons by Governor Murray: To separate first term convicts from the seasoned convicts; to construct a tubercular ward for segregation; to provide work for the new convicts; and to raise food and lower the cost of penal institutions. At some point in the 1930s, the offenders were returned to the main institution and this facility became a federal, state, and local Venereal Disease Hospital. Early in the 1940s, the facility was used as a German Prisoner of War Camp. During the late 1940s, the State Penitentiary again used the facility as a sub-prison. In 1948, the offenders were returned to the main prison and this facility then became the Stringtown Training School for White Boys. In August of 1956, the facility again became an Honor Farm of the main institution. In 1959, the Vocational Rehabilitation Schools were added and the institution became known as the Vocational Training School, a sub-unit of the main institution. In 1968, the institution erected the current fence and towers and became a medium and minimum security sub-unit. In July, 1973, the unit was separated from the main institution. In November, 1977, the name was changed to Stringtown Correctional Center and the security level was made medium. The center’s name was officially changed to the Mack Alford Correctional Center, on March 27, 1986, in honor of Warden Mack Alford, a 30 year veteran of corrections who died on March 10, 1986.

MACK ALFORD
Mack Alford was appointed warden of the Stringtown Correctional Center in September, 1973. His career in corrections started in 1955 as an officer at the Boys Training School in Stringtown, Oklahoma. After several promotions, he moved to Helena, Oklahoma, to work at the Helena Boys Training School and from there to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Mack Alford served as warden of the Stringtown Correctional Center until his death in March, 1986.

Northeast Oklahoma Correctional Center

Northeast Oklahoma Correctional Center (NOCC) is a minimum security facility for adult male offenders. The facility is located on the grounds of the Eastern State Hospital in Vinita, Oklahoma. A trusty unit was established to provide institutional support to the hospital in 1980. The relationship between the Department of Corrections and the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services at Eastern State Hospital began in 1985 with the establishment of the Treatment Alternatives for Drinking Drivers (TADD) program. In 1987 the Department of Corrections Agri-Services Unit began leasing the farmland at Eastern State Hospital. After several years of this expanding relationship, the legislature passed laws in 1994 transferring three large buildings at Eastern State Hospital to the Department of Corrections for use as prison bed space. In December, 1994, the first offenders were transferred to the newly established facility. Subsequently, a new 264 bed housing unit, a dining/kitchen facility, Central Control, and the warehouse/maintenance building were constructed. Both renovation and construction continue. A portion of the offender population continues to provide institutional maintenance and support functions for both the Eastern State Hospital and NOCC. Other offenders are involved in Prisoner Public Works (PPW) programs and institutional farming operations.


Oklahoma State Penitentiary

Prior to statehood in 1907, all felons convicted in Oklahoma Territory were transferred to Kansas, at a cost of 25 cents per day. After statehood, McAlester was chosen as the site for the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and 1,556 acres northwest of McAlester was set aside for the maximum security facility.
Construction began in 1908, when $850,000 was appropriated by the legislature. Inmates were returned from Kansas to do the work. The first buildings constructed at the site were the West Cellhouse and the Administration Building. Later, the Rotunda and the East Cellhouse were constructed. Additional buildings were constructed on an as-needed basis.
In order to provide work for the inmates, an industry program was developed. A tailor shop, shoe manufacturing plant, and cane mill were among the first industry programs implemented.
As the population inside OSP grew, new housing units were added. The “F” cellhouse was added in 1937, and later the New Cellhouse was constructed. Of the four main housing units occupied, only the new cellhouse no longer exists. This unit was severely damaged in the riot of 1973, and was torn down in 1976. Later, a 50-man disciplinary unit was built west of the main institution. The inmate population nicknamed this unit “The Rock.”
The most costly prison riot in the history of the nation broke out on July 27, 1973. Damage was estimated to be between $20 million and $40 million.
A federal court in 1978 found conditions at the penitentiary unconstitutional. Consequently, four new housing units were built and in 1984 the aging East and West Cellhouses were closed.
The Talawanda Heights Minimum Security Unit was opened outside the East Gate Area in October of 1989 to house inmates utilized by the host facility in institutional support positions.
A Special Care Unit was opened July 20, 1992 to ensure that the needs of special management offenders are met. This unit provides mental health care to offenders, thereby reducing the need for long-term hospitalization outside the facility.
A medium security unit with a capacity of 140 inmates is located on “G” and “I” units. It is designed to provide a safe and secure environment for medium security inmates to more successfully adjust to the transition to a lower security classification.
The newest addition, “H Unit,” provides new quarters for disciplinary segregation inmates, death row, and the lethal injection death chamber. H Unit also houses Administrative Segregation and Level III general population inmates.


Oklahoma State Reformatory

The legislature created the Oklahoma State Reformatory (OSR) in 1909. The construction of OSR was accomplished with prisoner labor. The construction material was primarily granite rock from the Reformatory’s own mountain, “Wildcat Mountain.” There are no original buildings on the ten-acre walled compound. The oldest structure on the yard is the first floor of the school building (Lakeside High School) built in 1921, with an upper floor added in 1949. All other buildings were built since 1957.
OSR’s first female Warden, Clara Waters, was the first female Warden in the United States to head a state prison, and the first female to head an all-male prison. Ms. Waters served as Warden at the Reformatory for nine years after being appointed by Gov. Henry S. Johnston in 1927, when she was 37. She brought five years of experience with her (gained from helping her husband, Dr. George Waters, previously warden). She required all offenders, hard-boiled and errant youngsters alike, to attend Sunday church services. She organized Bible classes, literary societies, set up a recreation program and an education program to teach each offender a trade. This program eventually evolved into Lakeside School, the first fully accredited “behind-the-walls” high school in the United States.
As additional history, famous aviator and Oklahoman, Wiley Post once served time at OSR. In 1921 he was convicted and sentenced to ten years for stealing a car, but was paroled after one year.

 

William S. Key Correctional Center

The William S. Key Correctional Center was formally opened on December 6, 1988 as a minimum security institution at Fort Supply, Oklahoma, and named after the late General William Key. General Key served as warden of Oklahoma State Penitentiary on two different occasions.
Sue Frank was appointed the first warden of the William S. Key facility and was also instrumental in the establishment of the Historic Foundation, dedicated to restoring and interpreting the history of the Camp Supply era, a former military site which was an Army supply base in the late 1800s. The facility shares its grounds of some 3,552 acres with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the Department of Career and Technology Education and the Oklahoma Historical Society, which is responsible for the Fort Supply Historic Site.

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Operational Services

The Operational Services Unit consists of, and provides oversight to, the Classification and Population Unit, Agri-Services, Oklahoma Correctional Industries, and the Construction and Asbestos Abatement Units.
The Classification and Population Unit is responsible for collecting and reporting agency offender counts, review of security assessment tools and offender transfer requests, offender sentence administration, the Sex Offender Registry, and reception and initial classification and placement of new offenders. The Central Transportation Unit (CTU) is also a part of this unit; four separate sites are located within the state and CTU is responsible for transporting all offenders after initial classification.
Oklahoma Correctional Industries (OCI) provides necessities for housing of offenders, including clothing, cell furnishings, and cleaning products, as well as office furnishings for staff. Products are also produced and sold to other state and federal agencies. The Agri-Services Unit produces food products, including meats and vegetables for offender consumption. Both provide large numbers of meaningful jobs for the offender population.
The Construction Unit is responsible for large new construction projects throughout the state, as well as remodeling endeavors and project inspection. Asbestos-contaminated buildings are abated by the Asbestos Abatement Unit, for both the Department of Corrections and for other state agencies.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Oklahoma Correctional Industry

Although Oklahoma Correctional Industries is an integral part of the Department of Corrections, it is more like a private business conglomerate working within the framework of state government. It offers customers quality products at a reasonable price, reduces offender idleness and provides job skills training. This results in significant overall tax savings to the general public.
Oklahoma Correctional Industries employs 1,075 offenders in 19 operations located at 11 institutions. Seventy-two professional staff educated and experienced in all phases of modern corporate business administer OCI's operations. Oklahoma Correctional Industries operations are self-supporting.
In addition to the public sector industries, Oklahoma Correctional Industries also manages a program which utilizes offenders who work for the private sector in two businesses that involve business to business telemarketing and recycling returned merchandise.

Agri-Services

The Agri-Services Division of the Department of Corrections plays a vital role in enabling inmates to learn valuable job skills and work ethics that they can benefit from upon release. On average, 400 inmates work at the Agri-Services ten farms, Meat Processing Center and Food Processing Plant. Collectively, the farm operations encompass approximately 25,000 acres where cattle production, farm management, vegetable production and land management skills are taught. Currently an annual average of 4,000 head of cattle is maintained for beef production, 400 head of dairy cows for milk production and grass hay, alfalfa hay and other small grains are produced to supplement the winter feeding of cattle.

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Private Prison and Jail Administration

Due to overcrowding in the Department of Corrections facilities during 1994, interested sheriffs contracted with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections for bed space in an effort to alleviate overcrowding. In 1995, State Statute 57 § 561 was enacted, authorizing the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to contract with private prison operators to house Oklahoma offenders, thereby creating the Private Prison and Jail Administration Unit.
The unit also has statutory responsibility to monitor not only private prisons and county jails housing Oklahoma DOC offenders, but any private prison operating within the state. As of March 2010, a total of 15 county jails and six institutions, with oversight of 10,203 offenders (4,993 non-Oklahoma, 4,721 Oklahoma, 489 Oklahoma County jail offenders) are monitored by the unit. Three institutions house Oklahoma offenders, two house Arizona offenders, and one houses California offenders.
In addition to annual renewal contract negotiations with the private prison corporations, the unit is responsible for liaison between the individual facilities and the department, review and approval of new construction/renovation, serious incident review, statistical information, state statute/contract/policy compliance, and annual auditing of each contract facility.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

PRIVATE PRISONS WITH OKLAHOMA INMATES

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Treatment and Rehabilitative Services

The Division of Treatment and Rehabilitative Services is responsible for the provision of medical and mental health services for all offenders incarcerated in the Department of Corrections. Medical and mental health staff is assigned to all facilities to ensure appropriate access to these services. The Division maintains four infirmaries and three mental health units.
The Programs Unit oversees all offender programs to include drug and alcohol treatment and adult educational services. Educational services include literacy, adult basic education, GED, and college courses. Drug and alcohol treatment programs include cooperative agreements with the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, as well as RSAT programs funded by grants through the District Attorney’s Council. Career and Technical training programs allow offenders the opportunity to acquire work skills and Reentry programs focus on the offender’s employment, housing, treatment aftercare, and other services vital to successful return to the community.
Religious and Volunteer services provides oversight and coordination of the many volunteers who provide religious and program services to the offender population. These volunteers form a critical partnership with the Department of Corrections providing thousands of hours of support each month. The Victim Services unit is committed to assisting victims of crime by providing information related to the custody and status of offenders who are incarcerated or under the supervision of the agency.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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Community Corrections

The Division of Community Corrections has the responsibility of providing supervision of offenders classified to the community level. The division is a multi-faceted, multi-functional, essential component of the Department of Corrections.
The most significant roles the division plays in meeting the mission of the Department of Corrections are the reduction in recidivism, number of probation revocations, alcohol and drug dependencies among offenders, and reduction in cost to the State.
Diversion is another important function of The Division of Community Corrections. This is accomplished through probation and parole and is an alternative to incarceration.

THREE GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR THE YEAR 2009


PROBATION AND PAROLE

Probation and Parole is the unit of the DOC responsible for the supervision of offenders sentenced by the court to suspended and deferred probationary sentences, offenders released from incarceration to parole, inmates released to Global Position Satellite Monitoring and Electronic Monitoring for DUI Offenders, and offenders residing in Oklahoma who were sentenced in other states. The unit is responsible for investigations ordered by the courts, the pardon and parole board or the Department. These investigations include, but are not limited to, pre-sentence, pre-parole, Interstate Compact, and pre-pardon.
The Division of Probation and Parole employs Evidence Based Practices (EBP) in the supervision of offenders. EBP supervision is designed with theory, research, public policy, and practice; all supportive of each other, leading to measurable supervision outcomes. The long term goal of supervision is the reduction of offender risk through enhancing offender’s intrinsic motivation for pro-social change. EBP focuses limited resources on those offenders with moderate to high criminogenic risk factors. Criminogenic risk factors are matched with intervention programs to reduce the likelihood of future law violating behavior. EBP emphasizes outcomes over process.
Probation and parole operates seventy-four offices state-wide. At the close of FY’09, there were 20,845 active offenders and 7,623 administratively supervised offenders under the custody and supervision of the Division of Community Corrections.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS FY 2009


COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS DISTRICT SUPERVISORS

Clara Waters and Oklahoma City Community Corrections Centers are all in OKC under Oklahoma Co. Community Residential Services.


Community Correction Centers
Clara Waters Community Corrections Center

The Clara Waters Community Corrections Center (originally known as the Clara Waters Community Treatment Center) CWCCC, is located on I-35 in northeast Oklahoma City. The center was opened in March, 1978, as an all female facility and later changed to co-ed in September, 1983. The facility remained co-ed until 1992, when, during a single day, the females at the center were transported to the Kate Barnard Community Treatment Center (KBCTC), an all male facility, and the males at the KBCTC were transported to the CWCTC which became an all male facility, with KBCTC becoming all female. On May 9, 2003, the facility was severely damaged by a tornado, forcing relocation of the offender population.
The CWCCC has the potential to function as a multi-faceted facility to include components to address the need for additional community security beds, community sentencing, work release and substance abuse treatment programs, as well as, prisoner public works program crews to assist local communities.

CLARA WATERS
Clara Waters was the wife of Dr. George Waters, who was the warden of the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite from 1920-1926. She had been actively involved in her husband’s work, so much so that one year after his death she was named warden of the reformatory. This appointment made Clara Waters the first female warden in the United States to head a state prison. She also is reported to be the first female to head an all male prison. While serving as warden, she developed the educational and vocational training opportunities provided to the young offenders convicted of felonies and began the first in-house educational program at the reformatory. This program eventually evolved into the Lakeside School, the first fully accredited behind-the walls high school in the United States. Other accomplishments included a classification program to segregate the younger offenders from the older inmates. In addition, she initiated a 24-hour day medical access program at the reformatory, which later became a required standard at all corrrectional facilities.


Enid Community Corrections Center

The Enid Community Corrections Center, located in Enid, Oklahoma, opened in 1974 as a treatment center.? The facility, formerly a motel, consists of four large buildings and two smaller storage/laundry buildings.? Three of the buildings face Maine Street and contain offender housing, staff offices, visiting, and recreation rooms.? The fourth building contains the administration offices upstairs and the kitchen/dining areas downstairs.


Lawton Community Corrections Center

The Lawton Community Corrections Center (LCCC) is a community corrections center of the Southwest District Community Corrections. The center opened in April 1973 and is located in the southwestern portion of Lawton, Oklahoma, and is a male only facility.
The LCCC, like the agency’s other community corrections centers, opened as the agency was attempting to create a much smoother transition for the inmates from being incarcerated one day and being back in the community that same night. Statistical data supported the presumption that offenders who were released with meaningful employment, adequate transportation, a home, and pro-social associates were less likely to re-offend as opposed to those who did not. The facility was established with the goal of providing the inmates with a steady gradual re-entry process to address those issues that would carry over to release/discharge.

Muskogee Community Corrections Center

The Muskogee Community Treatment Center officially opened on February 21, 1974 with 25 offenders and eight to ten trustees. Clarence “Andy” Anderson was named Superintendent. The authorized capacity was 34. The building was approximately 40’ X 150’ in size. It contained 20 rooms with individual baths. There was an office and a four-room apartment located in the north end of the building.
The average salary for “residents” was $2.43 an hour. A resident paid $3 a day for room and board, $1 for transportation and required to save 20 percent of his salary, giving him a “nest egg” upon his release.
Programs offered at MCCC are work release, Thinking for a Change, MRT, GED, Life Skills, and Transition Program.

(NOTE: The Muskogee Community Corrections Center was converted to a work center in 2010.)


Oklahoma City Community Corrections Center

The Thunderbird Motel (T-Bird) was leased by the Department of Corrections in 1970 and was originally used for administrative offices. The Oklahoma City Community Corrections Center was opened for offenders in 1971 and was the first “Community Treatment Center” in the state of Oklahoma. The Thunderbird Motel was also the first correctional property ever purchased by the state of Oklahoma, under a lease/purchase agreement. The center was an all male facility until 2000 when the males were transferred to other community corrections centers and the facility became the Mabel Bassett Minimum Unit, an all-female unit. In 2003, the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center, including the minimum unit, was transferred to McLoud, Oklahoma and Oklahoma City Community Corrections Center was vacant for approximately two months. On May 9, 2003 the Clara Waters Community Corrections Center was severely damaged by a tornado and the Oklahoma City Community Corrections Center was reopened earlier than expected to house the displaced male offenders.

Union City Community Corrections Center

Union City was originally built for Avalon Corporation in 1999, as a high-security juvenile facility. The structure, approximately 45,270 square feet on 20 acres, was purchased by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in July 2006. It was determined that the facility was best suited to house community level offenders. The facility officially opened March 24, 2005, as the Union City Community Corrections Center with a capacity of 228 offenders. The majority of the offenders are assigned to work for surrounding city, county, or state agencies under provisions of the Prisoner Public Works Program.

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Community Work Centers
ARDMORE CWC
BEAVER CWC
EARL A. DAVIS CWC

FREDERICK CWC
ELK CITY CWC
HEALDTON CWC

HOBART CWC
HOLLIS CWC
IDABEL CWC
MADILL CWC
MANGUM CWC
SAYRE CWC

WALTERS CWC
WAURIKA CWC

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Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services

The Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services Division administers the provisions of the Oklahoma Community Sentencing Act (22 O.S. §988.1-.24). Positioned between probation and prison on the criminal justice continuum, Community Sentencing provides the courts an innovative punishment option for non-violent offenders. Assessment, supervision, and treatment are combined in a manner that directly confronts criminal behavior and protects public safety.
In each county, a planning council, a group of citizens and elected officials specified by law or appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district, plans the local Community Sentencing system and with the assistance of the Community Sentencing Division locates treatment providers and resources to support the local system. The partnerships among the Department of Corrections, the local Community Sentencing systems, and the contractors providing services for participating offenders characterize this “¢ents-able” community punishment sentencing option.
The division is also responsible for the development and maintenance of COMIT, offender information management software supporting case planning linked to identification of criminogenic needs, Victim Identification and Notification Everyday (VINE), and a web based vouchering system for offender treatment services. The division houses the agency’s grants management unit and offender assessment specialist.

2009 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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Charts and Statistics


Crime Type of Incarcerated Offenders
Crime Type of Parole Clients
Crime Type of Probation Clients
SYSTEM SUMMARY
EMPLOYEES

 

Population as of December 31, 2009
Maximum Security Count
Medium Security Count
Minimum Security Count
Contract Facilities Count
Community Count
Work Centers Count
INFORMATION ON OFFENDERS ASSIGNED TO WORK PROGRAMS

Demographics as of December 31, 2009
OFFENDER INFORMATION

PROBATION CLIENT INFORMATION

PAROLE CLIENT INFORMATION

DEATH ROW

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Budget Information

Fiscal Year 2009 Budget


Fiscal Year 2009 Actual Expenditures by Expenditure Type

NOTE: Other Expenditures -
Over 1 Million: Merchandise for Resale (OCI & Agri-Services); Outside Medical Care; Offender Pay; Rent Expense; Production, Safety & Security; Shop Expense; General Operating Expenses.
Under 1 Million: Travel Agency Direct Payments; Incentive Payments; Travel reimbursements; Lease Purchasing; Library Equipment-Resources; Land; Livestock & Poultry; Employee reimbursements (Non-Travel); Payments to Local Government; Reimbursement.

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Directory


Administrative Offices

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Institutions

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Community Correction Administrative Offices

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Community Correction Centers

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Community Work Centers

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Probation and Parole Sub Offices

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Halfway Houses
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Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
3700 N. Classen Blvd., Suite 110
Oklahoma City, OK 73118-2863
(405) 523-3084

COMIT Project
440 S. Houston Avenue, Suite 202
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74127
(918) 581-2465

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OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
3400 Martin Luther King Avenue
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73111-4298