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.
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.
