From the “Well Duh!” department at Bubbaworld comes word that Eugene Bond is facing a lewd acts charge on allegations that he molested his 8-year-old daughter. Bond’s case would not be much different from hundreds of similar allegations and criminal cases each year in Oklahoma EXCEPT for: (1) The fact that Bond is an inmate [...]
A 55-year-old inmate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester was found dead in the bunk of his prison cell on Monday. While prison inmate deaths do occur from time to time, what is weird about this death is that he apparently died on Friday evening and no one seems to have noticed until Monday. [...]
Here we go again. The feds, in the form of the U.S. Justice Department, are taking Oklahoma to federal court over civil rights violations. This time the problem centers on the L.E. Rader Center, in Sand Springs, Oklahoma’s only maximum security juvenile facility. The latest action was filed last year in U.S. District Court for [...]
The state of Oklahoma currently has 6,700 inmates warehoused in private prisons, halfway houses and some county jails. Unless the Oklahoma Legislature provides supplemental funding far greater than the token supplemental appropriation of $9.7 million which it doled out in its ill-fated budget, those 6,700 inmates are going to have to be placed elsewhere as [...]
Here in Oklahoma we are tough on criminals. Well, actually tougher on some criminals than we should be. This is the case far too frequently with those convicted of non-violent offenses such as drug possession, hot checks, larceny and similar offenses. We are so tough on criminals that our prisons are usually full to the [...]
