Oklahoma sheriff and all of her deputies resign in protest over dangerous jail conditions, citing high levels of carbon monoxide, exposed wires in showers, gas and mold issues.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.An Oklahoma sheriff and the majority of her staff quit after citing uninhabitable conditions in the county jail.
The sheriff said that Nowata District Judge Carl Gibson informed her last week that if she did not bring the more than a dozen inmates back to the Nowata County Jail, she would be held in contempt of court. The"tipping point" for the sheriff was the Feb. 28 incident in which the level of carbon monoxide in the Nowata County Jail came to 18. She said the standard lethal level is 20.
Judge Gibson declared Barnett's resignation"void" on Tuesday, but the sheriff said that is not within his right.
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