CDCR To Transfer Inmates To Oklahoma: Report
Oklahoma prison officials say as many as 1,000 California inmates soon could be arriving at a private prison in Sayre, OK. Report from NewsOnSix.
Oklahoma Department of Corrections officials say the mostly medium-security inmates will begin arriving at the North Fork Correctional Facility April 16. The private prison in Beckham County has a capacity of 2,400 beds but currently houses a little more than 1,400 inmates. Officials from Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America, which owns the Sayre facility, and the California Department of Corrections would not confirm the transfer of inmates from California to Oklahoma.
About 470 of the inmates at Sayre are from Wyoming and Idaho, and both of those states plan to return those offenders to their home states later this year. The rest of the inmates at the Sayre facility are from California. DOC private prisoner administrator Renee Watkins says none of the out-of-state prisoners held at Sayre will be maximum-security inmates.