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  1. Formerly known as Davis Correctional Facility, on Oct. 1, 2023 the prison was renamed the Allen Gamble Correctional Center. Sgt. Joe Allen Gamble, Jr., who went by Allen, lost his life at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, Okla., on June 5, 2000, after a coworker, Officer William Callaway, sent a distress call.

  2. Aug 15, 2023 · The Oklahoma Department of Corrections will add another prison under its control this October. After nearly 30 years, the privately owned Davis Correctional Facility will switch hands to the state. Starting Oct. 1, the facility in Holdenville will become a state-run prison in what the DOC is calling a cost-saving move. Advertisement.

  3. Aug 16, 2023 · However, that is changing. ODOC announced today that it is set to take over the operations of the Davis Correctional Facility, in Holdenville, from CoreCivic on Oct. 1, 2023. This move brings the facility under the State of Oklahoma umbrella for inmates and employees. DCF employees will become ODOC employees on the changeover date, receiving ...

  4. Sep 2, 2023 · The Lawton prison, which houses about 12% of Oklahoma’s prison population, has its own violent history. On Aug. 16, a prisoner was airlifted to a hospital after a fight broke out.

  5. Sep 28, 2023 · HOLDENVILLE, OKLA. - Today, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections announced that the Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville, Okla., will be renamed to honor a fallen correctional officer. Beginning Oct. 1, the prison will be known as the Allen Gamble Correctional Center. Sgt. Joe Allen Gamble, Jr., who went by Allen, lost his life at the ...

  6. Sep 28, 2023 · HOLDENVILLE — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections announced Thursday that the Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville will be renamed to honor a fallen correctional officer. Beginning Oct. 1, the prison will be known as the Allen Gamble Correctional Center.

  7. Jul 31, 2020 · As Oklahoma’s incarceration rate soared throughout the 1990s, the private prison industry saw a business opportunity. The Corrections Corporation of America, which today is known as CoreCivic, struck a deal with state officials and opened the Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville in 1996. By 1998, two new private prisons—the

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