'State of emergency': DOC asking Legislature to buy private Lawton prison

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'State of emergency': DOC asking Legislature to buy private Lawton prison

After last year’s contentious contract negotiations narrowly avoided a public safety problem, Oklahoma appears poised to allocate $312 million of cash reserves to purchase a Lawton prison owned by the GEO Group, which currently receives a per diem rate to house about 2,300 state inmates. The Legislature’s two budget committee chairmen have expressed varying levels […] The post ‘State of emergency’: DOC asking Legislature to buy private Lawton pr…