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Security class
  
medium security

Phone
  
+1 918-594-1300

Opened
  
1979

Director
  
Terry Martin

Capacity
  
1,196

Location
  
129 Conner Road, Hominy, OK 74035

Managed by
  
Oklahoma Department of Corrections

Address
  
129 Conner Road, Hominy, OK 74035, USA

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Dick Conner Correctional Center is an Oklahoma Department of Corrections state prison for men located north of the town of Hominy in Osage County, Oklahoma. The medium-security facility opened in 1979 with an original design capacity of 400, and is named for former Oklahoma State Penitentiary warden and Osage County sheriff R.B. "Dick" Conner.

Conner was the site of a significant prison riot on August 29, 1983. A delay in an inmate count developed into a shift in the evening food service schedule, which in turn developed into food shortages. As inmates became more angry and belligerent they defied an attempt to lock down the facility, then four to five hundred prisoners started breaking windows, throwing rocks, and setting fires. By the time order was restored one inmate was dead from a bullet wound, two correctional officers had been injured, and three million dollars in damage had been done.

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Dick Conner Correctional Center Wikipedia