Happy holidays are in order for the Logan County Detention Center staff. They recently received six new cell phones in very unique gift packaging. Well, technically the package was delivered for an inmate and the cell phones would have been contraband, but that’s semantics. While processing Nike shoes delivered for an inmate, officers noticed cutouts […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Barely legal
Remember your first job out of high school and how bad you probably sucked at it? With that in mind, let’s take a look at this Nov. 30 Oklahoma Watch story about Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ latest idea to recruit more officers for its understaffed prisons. “In a little-noticed action, the Oklahoma Board of Corrections […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Gin busters
Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) sure loves to ruin its inmates’ weekend plans. Last Friday, officers at Clara Waters Community Corrections Center were watching surveillance cameras, as they do, when they spotted someone jumping the perimeter fence. After investigating the grounds twice, an officer found four bottles of Seagram’s Apple Twisted Gin in the trash, […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Hold the phone
Countless hands have been wrung raw over the negative influence the ever-present cellphone has on modern life, but Oklahoma Department of Corrections is worrying about them more than the Momo challenge. Earlier this month, The Oklahoman reported that the department has confiscated nearly 1,800 contraband phones from inmates since the beginning of the year and […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Deep shirt
Oklahoma often rates worst or close to it in many quality-of-life categories such as incarceration rates, education funding and access to mental health care and substance abuse treatment, but — probably not coincidentally — our state is consistently one of the most reliable sources for stories featured in “wacky news” columns and segments across the […]
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Overcoming ACEs
Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hopescreening9:30 a.m. Nov. 8 Salvation Army of Central Oklahoma Area Command eventbrite.com Free Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs as they are known in the health community, are gaining a lot of attention these days, according to nonprofit researcher Adrienne Elder. ACEs, resilience and holistic healing are […]
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Clothing careers
Clothes, like names, are vital signifiers of outward expression. They can make or break first impressions. But there’s always more than meets the eye, and Dress for Success Oklahoma City is no exception. “I think what we’re best known for, or people just assume because of our name, is that we just give clothing out. […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Life of Riley
Irish Mob member Chad “Big Homie” Nathan Hudson recently reached a deal with federal prosecutors to avoid a life sentence.
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Chicken-Fried News: Justin Case
Yukon Rep. John Paul Jordan recently requested an interim study on a state question that might lead to the state legalizing medical marijuana.
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Chicken-Fried News: Slammers slammed
Oklahoma’s incarceration rate is out of control, and the states jails can’t keep up.