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A Confined Crisis

            There are widespread problems throughout the Oklahoma County Detention Center, that continue today. What has got to happen to make people realize there is something wrong? The United States Government has been monitoring the way this jail has been operating the past five years and nothing has ever really been done to correct these issues. Since the day the building opened in 1991, there have been numerous issues that include; the high costs to maintain the building, overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and safety concerns. According to U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Grace Chung Becker. The U.S. Department of Justice has investigated the facility in May 28-30, June 9-13, and August 27-29, 2003 also a few years later in April 25-27, 2007. Their report stated numerous problems as mentioned earlier, but nothing had changed between these times. .
             The jail was designed to hold 1,250 detainees, but on any given day held more than twice that amount.(Becker) With the overcrowded conditions, the atmosphere could get dangerous on a moments notice. There are too many people in a cell, that are in a bad mood in the beginning and to crowd three, sometimes four people into a cell, that is a problem waiting to happen. Inmates would fight over the simplest things such as (talking loud, taking up more space than one needed, or just irritated from not being able to do the simplest things like take showers, because they couldn't get out of that cell 2-3 days at a time. Fights were, or I should say are a constant daily occurrence. But, it seems that with double the population that this place can hold, and not enough detention officers' to begin with, The jail is a time bomb waiting to explode.
             Although, there has never been any major problems in the jail that has been made public. The detainees and staff, live and work in an unsafe environment. Supervision is almost non-existent due to the fact that, while each housing unit or floor may house upwards of 500 detainees, there are often only one or two detention officers available to supervise the large number of inmates.


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