Oklahoma Department of Corrections

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Explore the cutting-edge of #AI technology and its transformative impact on justice and public safety at the IJIS Institute's Justice and Public Safety AI Summit! Learn more about AI's role in the Corrections field from experienced leaders Steven Harpe, Chase Hallman, and Marcus Hodges. Follow the link to view the full agenda and learn more: https://lnkd.in/eFFAQP5h

🔷 Join us for a hiring event in Ada! 📅 September 4. ⏳ Interviews start at 9 a.m. Physical agility and drug tests at 1 p.m. 📍 Oklahoma Works American Job Center, 1500 Hoppe Blvd., Unit 2, Ada, OK 74820 🔗 joinodoc.com Sign-on bonus 🔹 $2,000 – Applicants assigned to Great Plains Correctional Center (Hinton) or Dick Conner Correctional Center (Hominy). 🔹 $1,000 – Applicants assigned to all other ODOC facilities. #WeChangeLives #CorrectionalOfficers #NowHiring #OklahomaJobs

🎙️ Saturday, Chief Administrator of Classification and Programs Clint Castleberry spoke at the American Correctional Association 154th Congress of Correction in Nashville, Tenn., about ODOC's partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the new medication-assisted treatment program for those assessed with opioid use disorder. 📰 Read more about the program and partnership: https://lnkd.in/gSpgACDk #WeChangeLives #MentalHealth #NashvilleCongressOfCorrection #SubstanceAbuseTreatment

❓ Want a career that can change the lives of your fellow Oklahomans? Join us for a recruiting event for Allen Gamble Correctional Center on Sept. 4. 📍Oklahoma Works, 1500 Hoppe Blvd, Unit 2, Ada, OK 🕙 Interviews begin at 9 a.m. 🔗 joinodoc.com #WeChangeLives

🔷 COME ON DOWN: Join us for a hiring event in Sapulpa! 📅 TODAY ⏳ Interviews start at 9 a.m. Physical agility and drug tests at 1 p.m. 📍 Workforce Oklahoma, 1700 S. Main St., Sapulpa, OK 74066 🔗 joinodoc.com Sign-on bonus 🔹 $2,000 – Applicants assigned to Dick Conner Correctional Center (Hominy). 🔹 $1,000 – Applicants assigned to all other ODOC facilities. #WeChangeLives #CorrectionalOfficers #NowHiring #OklahomaJobs

William R. Benningfield Supervisor State Prison Farm End of Watch August 11, 1941 James David Parrish, a trusty serving time for Grand Larceny, complained of feeling ill. Mr. Benningfield, an unarmed supervisor, was transporting him to the doctor in Atoka, but they never arrived. The car was found abandoned near Wewoka with the gears stripped. Parrish was arrested that night while hitchhiking near Shawnee, Oklahoma, on Highway 270. Confessing to Benningfield's murder, he led officers to the body in a ditch 14 miles north of Durant. Benningfield had been beaten to death with a claw hammer.

🍔 Everyone had a great time today at the employee appreciation lunch at Great Plains Correctional Center in Hinton. 🌭 #EmployeeAppreciation #GoodFood #BeyondTheWire

Jess Dunn Warden Oklahoma State Penitentiary End of Watch August 10, 1941 On August 10, 1941, Warden Dunn was touring the prison with an electrical engineer. At about 10:45 a.m., prisoners Roy McGee, Bill Anderson, Claude Beaver, & Hiram Prather, armed with homemade knives, tried to break out of the prison. Anderson & Beaver had both been involved in a previous escape attempt that cost the life of Charles Powell four years earlier. The inmates took Warden Dunn and the engineer hostage & began marching them out in the yard, using them as shields from the officers. Threatening to kill their hostages, the prisoners managed to disarm the officers in the front guard tower. Now armed with guns, they forced their hostages out to the front gate. In the meantime, officers had called the Pittsburg County Sheriff's Office for assistance. Deputy Sheriff Bill Alexander was the only officer on duty, but Deputy William A. Ford was also at the Sheriff's Office although he was off duty. Both deputies had formerly been officers at the prison. The deputies quickly drove to the prison and using their car as a roadblock, about three blocks north of the prison, blocked the exit of the car containing the inmates & hostages. Dunn had told Alexander that if prisoners took him hostage, they would obviously have him order the officers to let them pass & not to shoot. However, Dunn told Alexander that the officers should ignore his orders under those circumstances & not let them pass. He also told him that "even if I tell you not to shoot, you shoot." Claude Beaver was driving with Warden Dunn & the engineer in the front seat of the car with the other three escapees in the rear seat holding them at gunpoint. As expected, the prisoners told Dunn to give the deputies the orders to let them pass. Deputy Alexander told the Warden he could pass but that the other men would not be allowed to leave. One of the prisoners then fired a rifle shot, hitting Deputy Ford in the head. Another prisoner then shot Warden Dunn twice in the back of the head, & Deputy Alexander began returning their fire. Warden Dunn & Claude Beaver were dead at the scene. Deputy Ford died a few hours later.

🎉 Thank you to the OETA's Oklahoma News Report and Steve Shaw for covering the inmate-constructed central control building at John Lilley Correctional Center in Boley and how the project changed their lives! -with Oklahoma Educational Television Authority 📼 https://lnkd.in/gYs6BKav