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At the last BOC meeting they said they would be out of money for private prison beds by March 2002 and out of money for medical by January.2002 Here is the story channel 5 in OKC is carrying. Get involved now. Help make a difference Ron Ward, newly named director of the Department of Corrections, reminded Keating in a June 22 letter that his agency is projecting a deficit of up to $62.2 million this year. He said the department is especially underfunded in the areas of contract prison beds and inmate medical care. "I believe it would be less expensive for the state to continue to provide constitutional conditions of confinement than to risk federal court oversight by taking drastic measures to deal with massive inmate overcrowding and inadequate medical care," Ward wrote.
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