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Aug 31, 2023 · Jeff Massey, an assistant district attorney in Oklahoma County, said he talks with any crime victims, looks over possible damages a person might have to pay back and whether the person has charges from another county before admitting them into the program. Roughly 30% to 50% of applicants sent to Massey get approved for the program, he said.
Aug 2, 2024 · Nation Aug 2, 2024 4:17 PM EDT. Two of Oklahoma’s top state officials are at an impasse over how to settle a class action lawsuit that accused the state of not providing timely mental health ...
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Turn Key was co-founded in 2009 by Jon Echols, an Oklahoma state politician who is also the company's president. The Republican, first elected in 2012, is the House majority leader, and sits on the House Appropriations and House Rules committees, among others, in the Oklahoma Legislature. In an email to Newsweek, Echols said there was no conflict o...
Turn Key typically gets a monthly payment to provide medical care. In at least one contract, it agreed to pay the first $500,000 of all off-site medical treatment before the county kicked in. Critics say this creates an incentive to cut costs by not sending sick people to the hospital. "The fundamental problem with private health care in prisons an...
In Caddell's case, court documents state that Gary Myers, a Turn Key doctor at the Tulsa jail, wrote that her sick calls "do not fulfill medical logic," and refused her ibuprofen because he said she was abusing the system for requesting medical care. "They completely failed her," said Yolanda Lucas, an aunt to one of Caddell's children. "She was in...
Healthcare for the incarcerated is a growing business. A report by the Health and Human Rights Journalfrom last June put the business valuation for private prison and jail health care at $9.3 billion. The latest deal for Turn Key, which only serves jails, had a valuation of about $11 million, according to PitchBook, a market research firm. A former...
Most inmates in America—the most incarcerated nation in the world with about 2 million behind bars—are considered indigent, according to the American Psychological Association. That also puts them at a disadvantage when it comes to challenging subpar medical care in court—if they even know they have the right to do so, said Almanza, previously a pu...
Another lawsuit facing Turn Key is that of Nandre Ervin, a U.S Marine veteran who served in Iraq and needed prescription eye drops for his uveitis—inflammation of the eye's middle layer—and who had been receiving free drops from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Ervin, then 49, was arrested March 15, 2020, on an assault charge and held at the Pul...
James "Doug" Buchanan left jail a quadriplegic. Incarcerated in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, Buchanan said first his left arm stopped working. Then his right. Then his legs. Other inmates had to drag him along a tile and concrete floor so Buchanan, now 61, could eat, use the phone or urinate, according to his federal lawsuit, currently on appeal. Buc...
Feb 27, 2023 · Attorney wins historic $82 million verdict in death of Tulsa County inmate Gwendolyn Young. (KTUL) TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — "For me, it feels like it’s yesterday," said Deborah Young in an ...
After a jury’s determination in 2017 that Tulsa County was liable for Williams’ death in the county jail, the jury awarded Williams’ estate $10 million in compensatory damages from Tulsa County; the largest settlement ever in an Oklahoma civil rights death case. The Tulsa World writes, “The 37-year-old Williams was mentally ill when he ...
Aug 15, 2023 · With the assistance of Tulsa attorney Dan Smolen, Deborah Young filed suit as administrator of Young’s estate in federal court for the Northern District of Oklahoma in 2013. The Court then denied a motion to dismiss on October 6, 2020, by defendants CHC and Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regalado, who by then had replaced Stanley Glanz, the sheriff in office when Young died.
Aug 10, 2015 · Internships and a job at prominent Tulsa law firms followed. Just two years after his graduation, he became of a member of the University of Tulsa Board of Directors. During that same year, he was named to both the Tulsa County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Executive Committee and the Oklahoma Bar Association Young Lawyers Committee.
