Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 170 - Department of Corrections › Chapter 15 - Private Prison Contractor Compliance Monitoring › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 170:15-1-3 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words or terms, when used in this Chapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Audit team"
means those persons who have been
				  appointed to evaluate the private prison contractor on a quarterly and annual
				  basis pursuant to these rules.
"Contract Monitor"
means those persons who have
				  been assigned to monitor compliance of the private prison contractors and to
				  coordinate actions and communication between the department and the
				  operator.
"Department"
means the Oklahoma Department of
				  Corrections, its facilities, divisions, offices, and institutions.
"Director"
means the director of the Oklahoma
				  Department of Corrections or designee.
"Operating Standards"
means applicable federal,
				  state and local laws, codes, regulations constitutional requirements, court
				  orders, American Correctional Association and local standards, applicable
				  Department of Corrections Policies.
"Prisoner, offender, inmate, or supervisee"
means:
(A) Any person who has been convicted of a felony and
				  contracted to the housing, care, and control of a private prison contractor;
				  and
(B) Out of state or federal inmates who do not have a history
				  of escape from maximum or medium security for adult facilities, as defined by
				  Oklahoma law, and who do not have histories of rioting, and have not been
				  convicted of a crime which would be a capital offense if committed in this
				  state, or a sex-related offense, or who are sentenced to federal or state
				  facilities for conviction of a misdemeanor, other than a sex-related offense,
				  or who are under arrest or detained for federal felony or misdemeanor
				  violations, or detained for a violation of immigration laws, within a facility
				  owned or operated by the private prison contractor unless such incarceration in
				  the facility is consistent with American Correctional Association requirements
				  relating to incarceration of inmates convicted of more serious offenses, or
				  unless subject to the exception made in
				  170:15-3-2(l).
"Private prison administration"
means the unit
				  within the Oklahoma Department of Corrections assigned to exercise regulatory
				  oversight of private prisons and private prison contractors.
"Private prison contractor"
means:
(A) A non-governmental entity or public trust, which pursuant
				  to a contract with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, operates an
				  institution within the department or provides for the housing, care, and
				  control of medium and or minimum security inmates and performs other functions
				  related to said responsibilities within a minimum or medium security level
				  facility not owned by the department, but operated by the contractor, or from
				  other state jurisdictions; or
(B) A non-governmental entity or public trust, which pursuant
				  to a contract with the United States Government or another state, provides for
				  the housing, care, and control of minimum or medium security inmates in the
				  custody of the United States Government or another state, and performs other
				  functions related to said responsibilities within a facility owned or operated
				  by the contractor.
Added at 10 Ok Reg 2669,
				  eff 7-1-93; Amended at 22 Ok Reg 2350, eff
				  7-11-05