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OK: DOC Boss Want to Close One Women's Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

DOC boss wants to close one female prison by: CURTIS KILLMAN, Tulsa World Staff Writer Monday, February 09, 2009 2/10/2009 Laura Pitman would like to see one of Oklahoma's female prisons closed. As the boss of the state Department of Corrections's female prisons, Pitman knows it will take time to reduce the female prison population enough to accomplish that, but around 700 fewer women in prison would mean that the Eddie Warrior prison in Taft could shut its doors. Then she would like to do it again with another prison. Trimming about 1,400 women from the state prison rolls would mean Oklahoma would no longer rank No. 1 in the country in female incarceration. The state's rate would be just average. Becoming average is on the top of Pitman's things-to-do list as she begins work as the department's deputy director of female operations...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).