{"id":32468,"date":"2020-03-03T14:59:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=32468"},"modified":"2020-03-03T14:59:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:59:03","slug":"fight-investigation-prompt-statewide-prison-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2020\/03\/03\/fight-investigation-prompt-statewide-prison-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight, investigation prompt statewide prison lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Monday night fight among approximately six prisoners prompted the Department of Corrections to lock down prisons across the state.<\/p><p>It\u2019s the second time the prison system has gone on lockdown in less than a year.<\/p><p>After the fight at Mack Alford Correctional Center in Stringtown, investigators discovered a possibility more fights could erupt in other prisons.<\/p><p>According to a written statement, the Department of Corrections ordered a statewide prison lockdown as a precaution.<\/p><p>Visitation is canceled at all corrections facilities. During lockdowns prisoners are restricted to their cells for the majority of the day.<\/p><p>Last September, the agency also issued a statewide lockdown after multiple coordinated gang-fights in six Oklahoma corrections facilities.<\/p><p>Thirty-six prisoners were sent to hospitals, and one man was killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State prisons are on lockdown after investigators found signs fights could be started in prisons around the state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[223,1217],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32470,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32468\/revisions\/32470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}