Oklahoma

Map of Oklahoma with spikes representing the active metric for each facility.

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280

560

Spikes represent the cumulative cases in a facility for incarcerated people

Statewide among incarcerated people

Cases

Cumulative Case Rate

Data Grade

State Facilities

7,435

0%

Federal Facilities

993

25%

ICE Detention Centers

68

44%

Statewide among staff

Cases

Data Grade

State Facilities

1,074

Federal Facilities

Unavailable

ICE Detention Centers

Unavailable

Facilities by

FacilityIncarcerated PeopleStaff

El Reno Federal Correctional Institution

Federal Facilities

556N/A

Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center

Federal Facilities

437N/A

ICE Okmulgee County Jail

ICE Detention Centers

62N/A

ICE Kay County Detention Center

ICE Detention Centers

6N/A

Great Plains Correctional Institution

Federal Facilities

N/AN/A

Legal Filings and Court Orders Related to COVID

No filings data available.

Our project collaborates with Bronx Defenders, Columbia Law School’s Center for Institutional and Social Change, and Zealous to collect legal documents from around the country related to COVID-19 and incarceration. Together, we then organize and code them into the jointly managed Health is Justice litigation hub for public defenders, litigators, and other advocates. The majority of the legal documents in the Health is Justice litigation hub are federal court opinions, but we are expanding to state legal filings, declarations, and exhibits.

In addition to the Health is Justice litigation hub, our project also manages additional data self-reported by advocates regarding COVID-19-related legal filings involving incarcerated youth and individuals in immigration detention.

For more COVID-19-related legal filings, please visit the University of Michigan Law School’s Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, COVID-19 Special Collection.

Prison and Jail Releases Related to COVID

We collect data on jurisdictions across the U.S. that have released people from adult prison and jail custody in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

JurisdictionFacility/facilitiesAuthorizing agent(s)Date*Overall population reduction/ total # of releases**Population prior to releases***Known facility capacity****Release detailsSource
OklahomaCounty-wide jails3/25/20202001721Minor offenses, Inability to pay bail
OklahomaStatewide prisonsGovernor4/10/202077524562Minor offenses, Short remaining sentence
  1. For the most part, we only include release efforts where the data source includes some sort of programmatic description of who is being released (e.g., people with technical violations of parole, people charged with non-violent crimes, etc.). You can find our full prison releases dataset here and jail releases dataset here.

  2. *date of releases, if available. Otherwise, date on which releases first were reported.

  3. **total number of releases reported when available. Otherwise, the change in population to which the releases contributed is reported.

  4. ***last reported inmate population before releases were realized

  5. ****capacity is often determined differently across jurisdictions and some facilities often report more than one capacity number. In these cases, we report the higher of the figures available.

Grassroots and Community Organizing Efforts Related to COVID

Our team collects data on grassroots and community organizing efforts by incarcerated people, their families, community-based organizations, nonprofits, and advocates aimed at influencing government agencies to protect the lives of people incarcerated in prisons, jails, and detention centers against the threats posed by COVID-19.

Target facilityCountyDate of actionOrganizationType of effortInternal/ externalEffort concernsSource
Eddie Warrior Correctional CenterOklahoma County9/18/2020Family, community members, and advocatesProtest at State CapitolInternalSanitation improvements
Eddie Warrior Correctional CenterMuskogee County9/11/2020Family, community members, and advocatesProtestInternalAccelerated releases, Sanitation improvements
Jackie Brannon Correctional CenterMcAlester4/9/20204 incarcerated people escaped custodyPrison BreakExternal
  1. You can find our full dataset here.