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THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN 1 0 Wednesday, June 30, 1999 CRIME Prison Deal Advances Inmates May Still Object to Proposed Settlement grounds for rejecting the agreement," Bullock said. If the agreement is approved, challenges involving court access, due process, use of force, correspondence rights and religious practices will be dismissed medical care and make safety improvements. State law requires that the inmates who are party to the lawsuit be given notice of any settlement and the opportunity to object. Objections will be considered by a judge. "I fully anticipate, in such a large number of people, there will be some people who won't agree with it," Bullock said.

One former inmate already has taken his complaints to the court. Bobby Battle, whose name appears on the case, filed a motion seeking to suspend Bullock's authority to close any deal with the, corrections department. The judge set a July 13 deadline for Bullock to respond. Bullock said Battle no longer would be considered a class member because that requires incarceration. "Certainly his views are important, but I don't believe that his objections provide any 6930 S.

WESTERN 631-8851 OPH7DAYSAWEEK 0TES OPEH PU SSOOIorAdults S2.00ctUrwl4'10yTS. integration and parity for male and female inmates. U.S. District Judge Michael Burrage, who received a copy of the agreement Tuesday, must approve the plan. "The agreement itself contains important reforms that everyone agrees need to be made, and that includes reforms in the medical care where we've seen the tragic toll that it's taken," Bullock said.

The class-action lawsuit alleged, among other things, that inadequate inmate medical care had led to needless suffering and premature death. Gov. Frank Keating and lawmakers have agreed to give the state Corrections Department more than $17 million to fix inadequacies in prison By Kelly Kurt Auoclated Preu Wrller TULSA The Tulsa attorney who started a court fight 27 years ago over conditions in Oklahoma prisons submitted the paperwork Tuesday to close the case for good. But before a judge's final decree, inmates across the state will get their chance to review the proposed settlement, attorney Louis Bullock said. "We want to be sure that before the final word is said, every inmate has an opportunity to be heard," he said.

The settlement agreement, reached last week after hundreds of hours of negotiations spanning years, sets up a timeline requiring the prison system to make improvements in medical care, sanitation, housing safety, racial TARZAN (3) 9:10 OUT OF TOWNERS (PO-13) 10:40 FACULTY (R) 12:35 opgn 7 Dyi slTofflflo Sound! After 3 Visits, It's A MS? Confirmed Capture A Texas state trooper gives a thumbs-up to prison guards after confirming the capture of an escaped convicted murderer, Clifford Jones, at a checkpoint on a highway leading from the area surrounding the Estelle High Security Prison near Huntsville, Texas, on Tuesday. Jones, who broke out of the state's most secure prison Sunday, fled naked into the surrounding snake- and alligator-infested swamps and was captured while hiding in a tree. Twins Halted in Manhunt Officers Use Old West-Style Technique 1-44 MLK Blvd. 424-0455 424-0421 titfltm utoitsnons Citti Mtinstw who MH'titt' tdufi Hsttivan it ohr I k' Ml M'tOM rtin ef is. II iMOOfer pnwnilm" 110 1 Otn S9 iT MWtint lei tMsrttt it rflntifieilon A StuOtnt tiektt WJ HIS ALL STADIUM SEATING STEREO SURROUND SOUND IN ALL AUDITORIUMS AUDITORIUMS AUSTIN POWERS 2 (PG13) trains, the railroad officers are teaming up with the FBI, the Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies.

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Seay on Tuesday gave Price six life sentences; two 10-year sentences and 11 sentences of 48 months, all to be served at the same time. "Even in death, Mr. Lurks accomplished what he set out to do help make the community of Muskogee a safer and better place to live by removing violent drug dealers from the streets. Fries said. home where Price was cowering in a closet with bodily tissues splattered across his shoes, authorities said.

DNA testing indicated the tissue had a 99.99 percent probability of belonging to Lurks, said Dennis Fries, an assistant U.S. attorney. Price, 28, was indicted and in February was found guilty by a jury of 21 drug and weapons counts. At a pretrial hearing, U.S. District Judge Frank Seay found that Price was responsible for numerous acts of By Mark A.

Hutchison Staff Writer MUSKOGEE Even in death. Ebon "Sekou" Lurks was able to send a drug peddler to prison. Lurks, 19, was the U.S. government's chief witness in its drug conspiracy case against Joshua Price Jr. of Muskogee.

He volunteered in 1997 to go undercover. On Jan. 28, 1998, Lurks was killed execution-style by a shotgun blast to the head. Informants led police to a Restaurant BATS Assailants Sought In Attack at Store HL.MJIII.M.d.l.aF, i DEL CITY Police are looking for several young men who attacked a 37-year-old man outside a Del City store about 10:40 p.m. Sunday.

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The TV station. had received a tip that Brown was working at a local video store, but when law officers, checked it out, he was gone, the reporter told Ngasgle. UpoJi his return, Brown was placed in the general population at the maximum-security prison, He'll likely return to Muskogee County to face escape charges. iilU CanS6S tmV ben H4Aje9i)atlve luxury of minimum JsWurity. Became or a spate of escapes a few years ago, convicted murdorers must spend SHOWS AND SHOWTIMBB, "ii wwm irVHIlDE OUTHMRN 1:40 2.103:30 (4:45 830) 7 00 7:60 0:30 1 0 00 IIIHIUftT 740 10:10 MMmninniijn umiMIDIT i nnifini 7:30 0:60 pais inn IlinHi THI LOVB iSJIb'oI 7200 60 pais MOTION 7IUO 2:00 (6:20) 7:40 1010 msvissnr REOAL CINEMAS OROIIROADI MAU 16 MB al 1440 632-4289 HOLLYWOOD THEATRES FINN MUARI MAU 10 PsnnSq.

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