From the day it opened, the downtown Oklahoma City jail – a bleak RoboCop-era chamber of imprisonment – has always been a troubled facility. If you wanna know how bad things are at the moment, read this article, or just conduct a simple Google search. It will reveal there's already been one death in the facility this year, following six deaths last year. And those numbers are probably low!
As a result of the jail's issues, the recent county commissioner races were very focused on criminal justice reform and either repairing or building a new facility. This leads to a very bizarre story that involves goofball county commissioners, inquisitive judges, pissed off sheriffs, and Valley Brook police officers doubling as bodyguards.