Sheriff seeks jail expansion for additional inmates

Posted by John Small | Jun 23, 2021 | Main News

Johnston County Sheriff Gary Dodd announced this week that he is looking to increase the number of inmates that can be housed at the county jail. During Monday’s meeting of the Johnston County Board of Commissioners, Dodd said he was looking at utilizing a currently unused bullpen area inside the jail facility as a dormitory-like […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

Sheriff seeks jail expansion for additional inmates

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