OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Greg Williams, the administrator of the troubled Oklahoma County jail, introduced his resignation on Monday.
Jim Couch, chairman of the Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority, also called the Jail Trust, mentioned in a press release they’d accepted Williams’ resignation and thanked him for his service.
“We count on him to stay within the position till roughly the center of January, although his last work day has but to be decided,” Couch mentioned.
The belief took over operation of the jail from the county sheriff’s workplace in July 2020. Since then, it has repeatedly come below hearth as a result of of inmate deaths, escapes and other incidents. That criticism intensified after an inmate was shot and killed after taking a detention officer hostage on March 2021.
The Oklahoman newspaper reported 5 of the 9 jail trustees testified final month earlier than the state’s multicounty grand jury, which is trying into the jail’s operations.
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