Oklahoma County cuts jail monitoring staff to close a budget gap, meaning fewer eyes on detainees
Excellent article from Maddy Keyes with the Frontier:
Mark Faulk, a member of the activist group People’s Council for Justice Reform, called cutting the contract for sight checkers “irresponsible and dangerous” and said it will put further strain on the detention officers, who already work long hours to provide continuous staffing at the jail. Faulk is running for District 1 Oklahoma County Commissioner against incumbent Jason Lowe in the June 16 Democratic primary.
“With contracted outside staffing, the death toll in what is known as the deadliest jail in America was finally dropping,” Faulk said. “Not only will this create a dangerous and potentially deadly environment for detainees, it will put employees at risk as well.”
You can read the entire article HERE.
Long-time criminal justice reform and human rights activist Mark Faulk will hold a series of town hall events across District 1 in Oklahoma County. Each event will feature community leaders from various county communities and school districts. To share this release, go HERE.
Mark Faulk's comments in opposition to a proposed OKC ICE detention center at Oklahoma City Council, Jan. 21, 2026. After 70 people spoke at the council meeting, and dozens more called the property owner and real estate broker to express their concerns, the deal was killed. Coming together and fighting for our rights works!!
Commentary by Mark Faulk printed in The Oklahoman on Dec. 14. If you don't have a subscription, it's reposted on Red State Revolt, where you can also read other stories on the OK County Jail and Oklahoma politics.
Mark Faulk's March 20th commentary on the deliberate underfunding of OK County Jail. You can share this commentary from HERE.
Great NonDoc article by Matt Patterson about the Big Beautiful Jail funding scheme. You can read the full article here.
Excerpt from Oklahoman article, entitled "Candidates aim to unseat Lowe, Davidson as OK County commissioners," by Richard Mize about County Commisioner's election, to read entire article go here.
My comments from a Jan. 20, 2025 article from the Oklahoman, a year and a half later we're even further from a solution for the billion dollar new jail scheme. To read full article, go HERE.
Jan. 7, 2022 on FOX OKC, we have been speaking up for the victims and their families in the OK County Jail and advocating for restorative justice for years.
