Source: Andrew Knittle, newsok.com, December 10, 2012
The actions of a private prison company that took months to turn over investigative materials to local agencies after a 2011 riot at the North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre could lead to a change in Oklahoma law…. The change would force private prison companies housing out-of-state inmates in Oklahoma to provide information concerning “a riot, escape or other serious emergency and facility operations upon request of Oklahoma DOC,” agency records show. It also would allow the state agency to fine companies who don’t comply. Minutes from a recent corrections board meeting show the Oct. 11, 2011, prison riot at the North Fork Correctional Facility — which required a sizable response from local law enforcement agencies — is the impetus of the soon-to-be-proposed law change.
