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COVER Inequality check
Black Americans continue to be overrepresented in the local and national homeless population.
By Nathan Poppe for Curbside Chronicle
Tags: State, Curbside Chronicle, Nathan Poppe, Homeless Alliance, Dominique Gray, Ralph Ellison Library, homelessness, housing insecurity, Black homelessness, Homeless Management Information System, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Uber, Meghan Mueller, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, redlining, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Federal Housing Administration, FHA, Camille Landry, Nappy Roots Books, food desert, Tony LeSure, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Oklahoma Policy Institute, Prison Policy Initiative, police violence, Wade Gourley, James Cooper
Chicken-Fried News: County smell
By Gazette staff
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Chicken-Fried News, Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, Mark Myers, Oklahoma County jail, Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority Jail Trust, P.D. Taylor, Kevin Calvey, Oklahoma Policy Institute
Running the jail
Greg Williams, who has 36 years of experience at Oklahoma Department of Corrections, will be the new county jail administrator.
By Miguel Rios
Tags: Metro, News, Oklahoma County, county news, oklahoma county jail, oklahoma county detention center, oklahoma county criminal justice authority, criminal justice authority, criminal justice, criminal justice system, jail, jail trust, Greg Williams, Tricia Everest, P.D. Taylor, Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE
Chicken-Fried News: Free at last
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Chicken-Fried News, nonviolent inmates, mass commutation, Kevin Stitt, Prison Policy Initiative, Tondalao Hall, Robert Braxton
Jail operations
The Oklahoma County jail trust decided an outside jail administrator should operate the jail.
Tags: Metro, Oklahoma County jail, jail administrator, jail trust, Oklahoma Criminal Justice Authority, Kevin Calvey, Oklahoma County Detention Center, Todd Lamb, P.D. Taylor, M.T. Berry, Frances Ekwerekwu, Tricia Everest, John Michael Williams, Mark Myers, Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training, CLEET
Jails on ICE
Advocates are urging area police and sheriff’s offices not to collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Tags: Metro, Immigration, oklahoma county jail, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, Fort Sill, Lawton, Sheriff P.D. Taylor, P.D. Taylor, Mark Myers, Bo Mathews, Dream Action Oklahoma, DAOK, Serena Prammanasudh, OKCPD, Oklahoma City Police Department, law enforcement, United We Dream, Wade Gourley, Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, OCSO, 287(g) agreement, Canadian County Sheriff’s Office, Okmulgee County Criminal Justice Authority, Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office
Public trust
Oklahoma County jail will have new operational and financial oversight in the form of a trust.
Tags: Metro, Oklahoma County, county government, county commissioners, Carrie Blumert, Kevin Calvey, Brian Maughan, jail advisory committee, jail trust, Cody Compton, Oklahoma county sheriff’s office, sheriff, P.D. Taylor, Larry grant, Fraternal Order of Police, Timothy tardibono, criminal justice advisory council, cjac, voices organized in civic engagement, VOICE, Jim Gragg, M.T. Berry, Jim Couch, Tricia Everest, Sue Ann Arnall, Francie Ekwerekwu, TEEM, Ben Brown, Todd Lamb, David Prater
Chicken-Fried News: Body count
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Chicken-Fried News, Prison Policy Initiative, Tom Price, Oklahoma County Detention Center, Charles E. Lemons, Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, Mark Opgrande
Beyond February
Black Oklahomans deal with deep, significant challenges that have faced them for decades and will continue to affect them disproportionately without criminal justice reform.
Tags: State, black Oklahomans, Jim Crow laws, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Nappy Roots Books, Camille Landry, Oklahoma Policy Institute, black history month, The Sentencing Project, Prison Policy Initiative, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Christopher G. Acoff, Original Flow, Oklahoma Is Black, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center
Reproductive wrongs
Smart and compassionate Oklahomans should fight proposed anti-choice legislation.
By George Lang
Tags: Commentary, pregnancy, abortion, Justin Humphrey, Senate Bill 195, Greg Treat, fertilized eggs, conception, embryos, fetuses, constitutional rights, Barbara Hoberock, Joseph Silk, Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, murder, Roe v. Wade, Prison Policy Initiative, Senate Bill 13, SB13, SB195, National Rifle Association, proposed bills
Voices heard
Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office is forming a citizens advisory board to better engage with the community and promote transparency.
Tags: Metro, Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, citizens advisory board, CAB, Voices Organized in Civic Engagement, VOICE, Carrie Blumert, Mark Opgrande, Sheriff Taylor, P.D. Taylor, Sundra Flansburg, Oklahoma County Jail
Jail suits
County commissioner Carrie Blumert would like to find a way to build a new jail to relieve serious ongoing issues.
Tags: Metro, Carrie Blumert, Mark Opgrande, Oklahoma County Jail, county commissioner, Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, MAPS 4, sales tax, Oklahoma County
Jail time
With a new county commissioner and the creation of a new criminal justice task force, a new county jail might be on the horizon.
By Nazarene Harris
Tags: Metro, Oklahoma County Jail, RGDC Inc., Oklahoma County Detention Center, HTB Inc., U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Carrie Blumert, Mark Opgrande, Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber’s Criminal Justice Task Force, Willa Johnson
Chicken-Fried News: Senior moment
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, Deer Creek High School, senior prank, Deer Creek School District
Chicken-Fried News: When pigs fly
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Broken Arrow, Chicken-Fried News, Department of Health and Human Services, Donald Trump, Environmental Protection Agency, epa, politicians, Scott Pruitt, Tom Price
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