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OK: The Board of Juvenile Affairs began initial discussions Friday about a possible private prison for juveniles in the state.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau Published: 7/18/2009 OKLAHOMA CITY ? The Board of Juvenile Affairs began initial discussions Friday about a possible private prison for juveniles in the state. The board is expected to vote in September on whether to solicit proposals to build and/or manage a private lockup. Such a move would require closing at least one of the agency's three prisons, the L.E. Rader Center in Sand Springs and two others in Manitou and Tecumseh. Office of Juvenile Affairs Director Gene Christian told the board at its monthly meeting that two pieces of 2008 legislation authorized the board to consider such moves. The agency initially sought designs for a 64-bed prison to house youthful offenders, Christian said. The projected cost in 2007 was $24 million, a figure that rose to $27 million in 2009...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 19, 2009 (boomark / email).