Oklahoma Code § 57-502

Title 57. Prisons And Reformatories: Definitions
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As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires:
1.  “Board” means the State Board of Corrections;
2.  “Department” means the Department of Corrections of this
state;
3.  “Director” means the Director of the Department of
Corrections;
4.  “Halfway house” means a private facility for the placement
of inmates in a community setting for the purpose of reintegrating
into the community inmates who are nearing their release dates.  The
term shall not include private prisons;
5.  “Institutions” means the Oklahoma State Penitentiary located
at McAlester, Oklahoma; the Oklahoma State Reformatory located at
Granite, Oklahoma; the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center
located at Lexington, Oklahoma; the Joseph Harp Correctional Center
located at Lexington, Oklahoma; the Jackie Brannon Correctional
Center located at McAlester, Oklahoma; the Howard McLeod
Correctional Center located at Atoka, Oklahoma; the Mack H. Alford
Correctional Center located at Stringtown, Oklahoma; the Jim E.
Hamilton Correctional Center located at Hodgen, Oklahoma; the Mabel
Bassett Correctional Center located at McLoud, Oklahoma; the R.B.
“Dick” Conner Correctional Center located at Hominy, Oklahoma; the
James Crabtree Correctional Center located at Helena, Oklahoma; the
Jess Dunn Correctional Center located at Taft, Oklahoma; the John
Lilley Correctional Center located at Boley, Oklahoma; the William
S. Key Correctional Center located at Fort Supply, Oklahoma; the Dr.
Eddie Warrior Correctional Center located at Taft, Oklahoma; the
Northeast Oklahoma Community Corrections Center located at Vinita,
Oklahoma; the Clara Waters and Kate Barnard Community Corrections
Centers located at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; the Community
Corrections Centers located at Lawton, Enid, Oklahoma City and Union
City; the Charles E. “Bill” Johnson Correctional Center, located
east of Alva, Oklahoma; the Southern Oklahoma Resource Center
located at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma; and other facilities under the
jurisdiction and control of the Department of Corrections or
hereafter established by the Department of Corrections;
6.  “Intermediate revocation facility” means a corrections
center operated by the Department of Corrections or a private

facility or public trust operating pursuant to contract with the
Department of Corrections which provides housing and intensive
programmatic services for offenders who have violated the terms or
conditions of probation as determined by a supervising probation
officer.  “Intensive programmatic services” offered by the
Department of Corrections includes, but shall not be limited to,
alcohol and substance abuse counseling and treatment, mental health
counseling and treatment and domestic violence courses and treatment
programs;
7.  “Intermediate sanctions facility” means a community
corrections center operated by the Department of Corrections or a
private facility or public trust operating pursuant to contract with
the Department of Corrections which provides for the housing and
programmatic services of offenders such as probation or parole
violators or community sentenced offenders placed in the facility
for disciplinary sanctions, work release offenders, offenders who
need intensive programmatic services, or offenders who have
demonstrated positive adjustment while in an institutional setting
who need additional programmatic services to enhance their reentry
into society upon release from a prison term; and
8.  “Private prison contractor” means:
a. a nongovernmental entity or public trust which,
pursuant to a contract with the Department of
Corrections, operates an institution within the
Department other than a halfway house or intermediate
sanctions facility, or provides for the housing, care,
and control of inmates and performs other functions
related to these responsibilities within a minimum,
medium, or maximum security level facility not owned
by the Department but operated by the contractor, or
b. a nongovernmental entity or public trust which,
pursuant to a contract with the United States or
another state, provides for the housing, care, and
control of minimum or medium security inmates in the
custody of the United States or another state, and
performs other functions related to these
responsibilities other than a halfway house or
intermediate sanctions facility within a facility
owned or operated by the contractor.
Added by Laws 1967, c. 261, § 2, eff. May 8, 1967.  Amended by Laws
1973, c. 152, § 1, emerg. eff. May 14, 1973; Laws 1980, c. 210, § 1,
eff. Oct. 1, 1980; Laws 1982, c. 140, § 2, emerg. eff. April 9,
1982; Laws 1982, c. 346, § 9, emerg. eff. June 2, 1982; Laws 1983,
c. 266, § 10, operative July 1, 1983; Laws 1984, c. 296, § 50,
operative July 1, 1984; Laws 1985, c. 202, § 2, emerg. eff. June 28,
1985; Laws 1985, c. 327, § 16, emerg. eff. July 29, 1985; Laws 1986,
c. 314, § 13, operative July 1, 1986; Laws 1987, c. 80, § 1,

operative July 1, 1987; Laws 1987, c. 205, § 21, operative July 1,
1987; Laws 1989, c. 303, § 10, operative July 1, 1989; Laws 1991, c.
307, § 1, emerg. eff. June 4, 1991; Laws 1992, c. 319, § 4, eff.
Sept. 1, 1992; Laws 1994, c. 277, § 1; Laws 1995, c. 266, § 1,
emerg. eff. May 25, 1995; Laws 2002, c. 211, § 1, eff. July 1, 2002;
Laws 2003, c. 3, § 44, emerg. eff. March 19, 2003; Laws 2006, c.
161, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2006; Laws 2012, c. 228, § 7, eff. Nov. 1,
2012; Laws 2016, c. 259, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2016; Laws 2023, c. 22, §
2, eff. Nov. 1, 2023.
NOTE:  Laws 1991, c. 291, § 14 repealed by Laws 1992, c. 319, § 8,
emerg. eff. May 27, 1992.  Laws 2002, c. 81, § 1 repealed by Laws
2003, c. 3, § 45, emerg. eff. March 19, 2003.

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