Oklahoma County Jail

I was in Oklahoma county jail for 4 months while waitiing to be sentenced for a bad check from 3 years prior. I was in the OK DOC at the time and was transported to the jail to wait for this. I was forgotten while I was there by the court system, my sentencing should have take 1 week at the most. Then while in the jail the food was horrible. I am a strong advocate of teaching people to do right, and I do beleive the prisons are in some ways to easy for people. But come on, we convicted the officers of the concentration camps for starving people like this. Its insane. The true fact is almost every one of those people in there is going to be someones neighbor at some point. Do you really want to fill them with hate and anger more than they already are. There are no programs there though many people spend more than a year there. A year that could be put to good use. In the Washington state county jails and many others, they have GED programs, Domestic Abuse programs, Drug rehab programs, etc. All of those are done on a volunteer basis. And it helps to shape the person while there. Did you ever hear the phrase an idle mind breads contempt. Or keep busy to keep out of trouble. These are very true. So lets see, you put people in jail where they are treated much less than human, you feed them less than what a small child would eat, you keep them in a cell 23 hours a day with who knows what the other person is there for, then you expect this person to come out and be a model citizen. Ummmmmm I have seen the people in the prison who come out angry and come right back in. Don't get me wrong it is up to you to change yourself and do right, but just like an abused child is affected by their treatment so is an inmate who has been treated inhumane. We do pay taxes and I do not have a problem paying a small extra tax to make sure these people are fed and treated like humans. I do not want to have to worry about the extra anger they will pick up in prison. To the person who said don't go to jail if you don't like it. I want to tell you generally you can control what happens to you. But in 2006 I was arrested in a case with my son. I called the police and reported him for abusing my grandson, but I did not call DHS. I thought it is a crime you call the police. I was arrested for failure to report child abuse. The charges were dropped at the first hearing but I did get arrested for it. So see sometimes even if you don't do anything you can be arrested. It's not a good situation by any means, but lets not hate these people but hate what they did. They may be your neighbor one day.