MAPS for prisoners?

[decepticobra]

all okc officials talk about anymore is MAPS. ...maps this, maps that...blah, blah, blah.

MAPS spelled backwards is SPAM.

[hoya]

Cry me a river!!! Poor inmates..
It's not supposed to be a place one want to go to. I suggest you look into the conditions of other prisons around the world. I feel ours are acceptable to say the least.

First, it's not a prison. It's a county jail. The people inside it have not been convicted yet.

I represented a woman on a child stealing case who spent four months in that jail before the ADA caught her "victim" in a lie. Turns out my lady really did have custody of the kid. The ADA promptly dismissed the case, because my client hadn't committed a crime.

I had another client who was arrested for possession of PCP. He spent two months in jail before the ADA finally got back the laboratory reports which said... it wasn't PCP. It was some pseudo-drug he'd bought at a smoke shop which just happens to be 100% legal.

Both of those cases happened within the last few months. The lady got out in July and the guy got out in October. Neither had broken the law. People in the county jail have not been convicted yet, and many of them are innocent.

Second, Oklahoma County Jail is one of the worst jails in the country. It's dangerous, unhealthy, unsafe, poorly maintained, etc. It does NOT match up with the standards we have for jails in the United States.

But if the major problem is overcrowding and it is built for 1200, we could easily fit 1000 into the existing structure without it being overcrowded. Obviously, we would not have prisoners chained in the hallways if there were enough cells. Also we would not be placing the kid who got busted for underage drinking in bricktown on even the same floor as the kid who just robbed a convenience store. Hopefully there would be some common sense involved. Maybe I am just tired of hearing that a kid who committed an armed robbery was released because there were not enough juvenile offender beds. If there is a structure available, it would seem to make good business sense to use it even if some upgrades are needed. If the juvenile offenders knew that they were not going to be released to their parents, they may think twice before committing the crime.

Give me a case number or a name. I want to see if you can find a kid who committed armed robbery and was released to his parents.