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Since the jail’s rated capacity is 283 inmates, the maximum permissible number of inmates, at least for the foreseeable future, is 269. ODOC personnel remained on-site helping advise the jail staff on correctional best practices during the pandemic.Īfterward, the manager of the OSDH Detention Program limited the number of inmates in the CCDC to no more than 95% of capacity the unused space is to remain in reserve for quarantine of inmates who test positive for the virus. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections sent a security detail to Lawton to help stabilize the CCDC and assist in sanitizing the facility. The state agency was compensated from federal Coronavirus Relief Funds paid through the federal CARES Act. Ultimately approximately 200 detainees who tested negative for the virus were housed for up to a month in state prisons: women at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center near McLoud, men in the North Fork Correctional Center at Sayre.Īn agreement between the Comanche County Facilities Authority and the Corrections Department stipulated that the DOC would receive $27 per day for each of the Comanche County inmates it housed during that period.
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That mandate extended for nearly four months, between May 16 and September 2, 2020.ĭuring that period the CCDC was instructed to refrain from accepting any more inmates until the Commissioner of Health deemed it safe to admit new detainees. The CCDC had the same experience last year.īecause of a coronavirus outbreak in which more than 120 inmates and staff members were infected, all visitation was suspended temporarily and the jail was placed under a Quarantine Compliance Order by the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH). OKLAHOMA CITY – A surge of coronavirus infections and deaths has stricken local jails and state prisons throughout the U.S., prompting officials to shut down some institutions completely and transfer their inmates elsewhere.īill Hobbs, administrator of the Comanche County Detention Center, can relate to the disruption caused by the coronavirus.