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1. 1. OTL_July 2008

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   Published on: 7/1/2008   Last Visited: 8/19/2008

   Tim Albin, chief deputy of the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma, offered numerous ways the Tulsa County Jail recruits young people.It has a partnership with Tulsa's Boys Scouts Explorer program that exposes boys and girls to the jail as young adults.Also, Albin explained, the agency has good contacts with area high school coaches, with whom it works to recruit athletes who may be interested in college but did not earn athletic scholarships.The agency reimburses employees attending college up to $1,000 a semester, an incentive that draws a large number of motivated people to the agency.When the agency hires someone just out of high school, that person is paired with a mentor who begins to advise the new hire on career path options."We try to identify: Do you want to be a supervisor?Do you want to be a certified officer? ... are you interested in going?We try to tap into those wants and desires and use those as motivation to get them where they are going," Albin explained.Mentors frame correctional officer work as a jumping off point to a number of great career options in criminal justice.
   
   As far as whether 18 years is an age at which people are ready to undertake a correctional officer role, Albin firmly believes yes.He has not found 18- and 19-year-olds' judgment to be any better or worse than his older employees'.When the younger cohort does run into trouble, it is usually outside of the facility, he finds.In addition, Albin uses his younger employees' knowledge to the advantage of the agency, picking their brains on the latest technology."I challenge them all the time to send me letters and information on better, faster, smarter ways to do things."And, he was happy to report that he often gets suggestions that the agency is able to implement.One interesting phenomenon that Albin has observed among young employees is that many of them were raised in nontraditional families, with an incarcerated parent, for example, or a mother who worked multiple jobs.That could mean that the child grew up with more freedoms, which, Albin has found, can make conforming to the rigid correctional environment a tough transition.Overall, though, Tulsa County has had much success hiring 18-year-olds.Albin finds that they have positive attitudes and are eager to jump into the job — though the eagerness can border on impatience when they don't feel they are getting enough job responsibility, what Albin called the "I want it now" attitude.

2. 2. www.tulsaworld.com

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   Published on: 5/1/2008   Last Visited: 5/2/2008

   The unrelated attempts occurred Monday and Tuesday, according to Tulsa County sheriff's Chief Deputy Tim Albin.
   
   The male inmates tried "positional asphyxiation," in which they tied a piece of clothing or other material around their necks, sat or knelt, then leaned forward to cut off blood flow to the brain, he said.
   
   A detention officer was able to intervene in Monday's suicide attempt before the inmate hurt himself, Albin said, but "the second individual -- the officer found him, but he had been there for several minutes."
   
   Albin said all inmates receive physicals and mental-health screenings upon entering the jail.
   
   "In both of these particular situations, there was absolutely no indication there was anything going on with these two individuals," he said.
   
   The jail does not plan to change its procedures as a result of the suicide attempts, Albin said.
   
   "Generally, if there is a mental-health >issue, we'll recognize them," he said.
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   "The (suicide watch) cells don't have anything in them except a bed, a stainless steel sink and a toilet," Albin said.
   
   The suicide watch is not lifted until the jail psychologist evaluates the inmate and approves their release into general population.
   
   Three suicides have occurred at the Tulsa Jail since the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office took over its operation in 2005, Albin said.
   
   He described the number of attempts as "minuscule."

3. 3. ARDMOREITE.COM: 'A thousand places to hide' gave murder suspect Scott James Eizember his break 11/30/03

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   Published on: 11/30/2003   Last Visited: 11/30/2003

   "I am just ecstatic that he's in custody and we didn't have another homicide," said Tulsa County Sheriff's Capt. Tim Albin, who led a team in the manhunt outside of Bristow.