By Clifton Adcock, Oklahoma Watch • Serious violations by inmates plagued Oklahoma’s two largest halfway houses for three years before the state took action in January by removing all inmates from one and later demanding a corrective plan at the other. State data analyzed by Oklahoma Watch shows that from 2010 to 2013, the rates of serious “misconducts” by male offenders quadrupled at the Avalon Correctional Center in Tulsa, run by a for-profit company, Avalon Correctional Services Inc. After a video of an alleged guard-sanctioned fight there came to light in January, the state Corrections Department pulled out all 212 inmates. Ten months later, more than 200 inmates again are in the...
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