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There are too many mentally ill inmates in jail and prison who should be in a diversion or treatment program elsewhere. Tulsa County is tackling the…
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A change is made to try and capture more money for the Tulsa County jail. County leaders adopt a resolution assigning jail expansion use taxes to a…
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After weeks of sniping over who should control jail funds, an interlocal agreement is signed by the Criminal Justice Authority, but not before more…
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One-on-one negotiations between County Commissioner Ron Peters and Tulsa City Manager Jim Twombly appear to have finally overcome arguments on a jail…
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Tulsa County leaders okay a new, higher rate for municipal inmates in the jail. Ron Peters led negotiations for the county in recent contentious talks…
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Sheriff’s officers want Tulsa elected leaders to take a tour and see for themselves what court guard and court services do. Undersheriff Tim Albin…
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Negotiations continue on a jail contract between the County and the city of Tulsa, but neither side is budging much from earlier positions. With the…
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Tulsa County leaders establish daily jail costs and booking fees, and argue over what the city will pay for a one month extension of the jail contract.…
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On this edition of ST, we learn about the Lobeck Taylor Family Advocacy Clinic at the TU College of Law, which is, per its web page, "an intensive,…
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Prison overcrowding is, unfortunately, a well-known nationwide phenomenon. It's also a familiar and quite serious problem here in our own backyard, as it…