The Payne County Detention Center was completed in 2009, The 75,000 sq. ft. facility houses up to 404 male and female inmates. The detention center has 23 staff members including a kitchen supervisor and a facilities maintence person.
The Payne County Detention Center provides many programs for inmates giving them the resources and tools to enhance the quality of life and lower recidivism.
After in-patient hospitals closed, many of the mentally ill were moved to jails. While a short-term facility is being built the Payne County Detention Center provides mental health services to its inmates. A counselor, with the help of interns from OSU, counsel inmates two times a week.
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