Though jails are often referred to as the new form of mental institutions by mental health and criminal justice reform advocates, the ability to adequately identify mental illness among prisoners or inmates who might pose a suicide risk varies from facility to facility.
Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regalado also said he and the phone service vendor came to an agreement in the last year to lower inmate phone price rates, and that the previous rates were likely gouging inmates and their families.
State corrections officials expressed several concerns about CoreCivic’s plans to close the facilities, including sending prisoners nearing release from one of the best performing reentry facilities to one of the worst performing facilities.
Lisa Reyna is the second eyewitness to speak with The Frontier and whose account of what happened during the crash contradicts details in a report by a Tulsa County Sheriff’s deputy who had just made a U turn in the roadway when the crash occurred.
Other motorcyclists who were at the scene of the fatal crash say they were told by the deputy to leave, while the deputy’s report says he told them to stay.
Five staff members were injured and taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries during the May 16 assault.
The lawsuit alleges the David Stanley auto dealerships inflated customer incomes and vehicle values to provide more costly loans to customers with bad credit, and after the finance company found out it hid the information from customers.
The Cimarron Correctional Facility has had several violent incidents over the past several years, including a unit-wide riot in 2013 and at least two riots in 2015.
