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July 18th, 2009-
County Commissioners were shown two conceptual designs. One conceptual design depicted the current Oklahoma County Jail facility combined with an annex next door at nearly 1.3 million square feet. The preliminary cost estimate for this project is $436 million, said Fred Schmidt, Frankfurt-Short-Bruza director of architecture and project manager.
The second design layout combining the sheriff’s office, intake center, laundry and food service area, warehouse and social support depicts a new 1.1-million square foot facility with an estimated cost of $391 million, Schmidt said. This proposed new facility would be built on a 50-acre site within five miles of downtown. Property is not available downtown to accommodate the plan, Vaughn said.
July 18th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
This has to fail, Sherriff Whetsel needs to lose his job, and each county commissioner behind this needs to be voted out. Oklahoma County does not need a jail that is three times the size of Big Mac, the State Pen in McAlester, and more than twice the size of Tulsa County’s jail. The only jail reform we need is 5 or so more dungeon cells to stick Whetsel and his cronies in. MAPS for Convics, I think not.
July 18th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Heck, with that kind of money we could build enough light rail to ride Whetsel out of town.