Oklahoma Code § 51-153.1

Title 51. Officers: Housing of federal inmates from another state - Private
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prison facilities - Public trusts - Action or recovery barred.
Nothing in the Governmental Tort Claims Act shall be construed
as allowing an action or recovery against this state, against any
city, town or county that is the sole beneficiary of a public trust,
or against any employee of this state or any city, town or county of
this state due to the housing of federal inmates or inmates from
another state in facilities owned or operated by private prison
contractors.  If a public trust that has as its sole beneficiary a
city, town or county has a facility that houses federal inmates or
inmates from another state, the immunity provided for in the
Governmental Tort Claims Act shall not apply to that trust.

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