(Enid, OK) The Oklahoma Department of Corrections will close William S. Key Correctional Center in Fort Supply by the end of the year in a move that is being called “devastating to Northwest Oklahoma”. The announcement was made in an emailed news release Wednesday.
The closure comes at the end of a long review process, according to the news release.
Per the release, “repair and operation costs of the more than 50-year-old facility have continued to increase over the years. The inmate housing units, constructed in 1947 and 1951, were not originally built to prison specifications. ODOC determined that maintaining the infrastructure is untenable, to the degree necessary for safety.”
The DOC said in the release it will work to address the needs of the 140 employees during the transition and the agency will transfer the roughly 1,000 inmates currently housed at the facility to other minimum-security units.
