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Okla. Stat. tit. 57, § 57-69: Meals for county jail and correctional facilities

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personnel.

In order to protect the health and safety of certain law

enforcement personnel and the citizens of this state, and to provide

the state with the benefit of proper security within the county

jails and correctional facilities of this state, all jailers, jail

directors, keepers of the jail, sheriffs, deputies, correctional

employees, or any other law enforcement personnel working within the

county jail or correctional facility may, upon the approval of the

sheriff or facility head, be served the same meals served to the

prisoners within such county jail or correctional facility. There

shall be no cost to the law enforcement personnel for such meals.

The county sheriff or facility head shall pay for these meals out of

the funds appropriated to the county sheriffs or the State

Department of Corrections. The county and all of its officers and

agents are hereby prohibited from recouping the cost of such meals

either directly or indirectly or otherwise considering such costs or

their impact when establishing the charges to municipalities for

housing municipal prisoners in the county jail; provided, a

municipality may negotiate the manner of establishing such charges.

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