Is Oklahoma phasing out private prisons?

As Oklahoma’s incarceration rate soared throughout the 1990s, the private prison industry saw a business opportunity. The Corrections Corporation of America, which today is known as CoreCivic, struck a deal with state offi cials and opened the Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville in 1996. By 1998, two new private prisons—the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing and Lawton Correctional…