I know a little about Stringtowns rules and stuff and quite a bit about OSP's if anyone has a question please fell free to contact me and I will help if I can. I have contacts with the corrections Overseer for AA and the numbers and contact information for the Eastern region Department of Corrections that oversees the prisons in Eastern Oklahoma. I will get them and post them soon so if you need them you can have them but that will have to wait until work tomorrow I have them saved there. Best of luck dealing with OKDOC.

My son is at OSP any suggestions on how to speed up the parole process?

I would like to know more about that subject also. Is there even a way to speed it up? With the overcrowding and all, what does it take? Letters and/or petitions???

Has your loved one ever been before the Parole Board? If so, depending upon how long ago it has been and if his situation has changed, you can always ask for reconsideration or if he has never been before the Board, he can seek an early parole date. In Oklahoma there is a 5 member Board, one of those members has to recommend the Board's investigator to review the situation. If it passes there, it will then go before the full Board for early consideration. Then the normal process will begin. Doing it this way makes it about a four stage process rather than the normal 1 or 2 (depending upon the crime and the time involved).

The process may be speed up by writing the parole board for an early review or special concideration but be prepared for a fight to get this done. I have talked to many people at the pardon and parole and they are not very free on passing out the early reveiws and conciderations unfortunately. I am in the process of getting my fiancee's jacket ready for his parole date in Jan. 2004 and writing letters for concideration but here lately feel like I am butting my head against a brick wall. LOL There was a hope for awhile about a bill in the house for the early release of non violent prisoners that the ex governor was supporting but the new governor wasn't as supportive of and it was denied this past Friday by a narrow margin 47-49 the final vote. It would have allowed non violents coming up for parole concideration in near future to be released on electronic monitoring. *SIGH* Oh well on to fighting in a different direction.

I have never been to one of the Parole hearings. I always lived in a different state. Now I am closer although in the next door state I want to be more involved.
About the jacket, is it wise to have a copy or is that a really stupid question? It would help. Ummm. I still have to call his Case Manger about this visiting list.
I will let you know how it goes.
Wannamae

Personally Terry sends me copies of everything he gets that is supposed to be placed in his jacket by his case manager and he keeps a copy of everything he gives the CM. I then take the originals he sends me and copy them and have a copy of all this information printed to send to the parole board, We are waiting on a letter from his boss saying he has a good job waiting when he is released(we have one but it is over a year old and want an updated one) and for the highway patrol to mail me a copy of where he was injured while being transported by them in a car wreck. With the way DOC works it is a good ideal to have back ups of all paperwork.