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Authorities with the Oklahoma County Jail dispute a health department report that led to the ban on holding juveniles.The jail has struggled since the day it opened, but a surprise visit by the Oklahoma State Department of Health resulted in officials finding dozens of issues. The visit led health officials to ban the Oklahoma County Jail from holding people under 18, although at this point, that doesn t apply to juveniles charged with first-degree murder.As of Monday, 13 juveniles are at the jail.Jail administrator Greg Williams said during a Jail Trust meeting Monday afternoon that many of the problems the health department found have been there for years, and they re working on them as fast as possible. Williams also said he thinks there are some issues with the report itself. We ve made a checklist of all the issues cited in the report. There are a few points in the report that we re going to challenge through the administrative process that are just inaccurate or gain some
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By: Caleb Califano
OKLAHOMA CITY -
Oklahoma County commissioners could appoint a new member of the Oklahoma County Jail trust after former chair Tricia Everest left last month.
According to its agenda, the commissioners will discuss and take possible action in making Joe Allbaugh the newest member of the jail trust.
Allbaugh is the former director of the Department of Corrections.
However, while Allbaugh s name is on the agenda, commissioner Carrie Blumert believes each commissioner should be able to submit their own name for the jail trust position. There is an item on our Commission agenda Monday to appoint Joe Allbaugh as trustee on the Jail Trust,” Blumert said Friday on Twitter, in part. “We have not created a process yet for how we will consider new trustees. Each of us should get to submit the name we want then we discuss.