Inmates are dying on a regular basis at a private prison with a contract to Oklahoma.

Oklahoma's privately owned and operated prisons is turning prison time into a death sentence without appeal.

September 13, 2015
 
CUSHING — Three inmates died, (click here) with five more hospitalized after a “disturbance” at Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing on Saturday....
...A DOC spokeswoman declined to comment on the incident because it is under investigation.

...The Cimarron Correctional Facility is a 1,720-bed prison owned and operated by CCA housing medium- and maximum-security male inmates for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.

In June, Cimarron went under lockdown after inmates from three housing units got into a fight that sent 11 of them to the hospital.

There was a unit-wide fight there in March 2013, which involved inmates smashing windows, breaching security doors and being pepper-sprayed after making weapons from destroyed property.

Another incident at the prison in May 2013 involved 10 offenders and began when one of them hit an inmate who was eating lunch in the dining hall. Officers used more than a pound of pepper spray against the inmates after they refused orders to stop fighting.