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Oklahoma County detention center reports increased DOC transports, staffing hires and tech pilots
Summary
At a Citizens Advisory Board meeting, Mark Upgreen presented a monthly detention center report detailing new transport vehicles and a tripling of weekly DOC 'judgment-and-sentenced' (J&S) transports, expanded medical staffing under contract, a radar-based in-cell monitoring pilot, lower Narcan administrations versus a year earlier, and ongoing population and contraband interdiction activity.
Mark Upgreen, presenting to the Oklahoma County Citizens Advisory Board, delivered a detailed monthly report on operations at the Oklahoma County Detention Center, highlighting transport agreements with the Department of Corrections, new hires in medical services, several technology upgrades and ongoing contraband-interdiction efforts.
Upgreen said the jail purchased two transport buses and received a third as a gift from the Arnel Family Foundation, bringing the transportation fleet to four vehicles. "We actually purchased 2 and received 1, as a gift, I guess, from the Arnel Family Foundation," he said. He told the board that, under a recent arrangement, the county is now sending approximately 36 male and one female J&S (judgment-and-sentenced) transports per week to DOC intake locations; that figure is up from roughly 12 previously and is intended to reduce the county's J&S population.
On staffing and training, Upgreen said a…
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