04.09.07
Must Have Been a Slow News Day
While searching for new public defense-related news to post about today, I came across a completely random, yet totally hilarious, tidbit from Oklahoma:
Toure recalls days as public defender
OKLAHOMA CITY Former state Representative Opio Toure (OH’-pee-oh TURR’-aye) was among those sitting in on a round-table discussion today at the Oklahoma History Center with award-winning historian John Hope Franklin. Toure recalled that as a public defender in Oklahoma County, he often ate food served to jail inmates, especially on Fridays, when fish was on the menu. He says the fish was quite good and said other public defenders and prosecutors could come to the jail just for that. Toure said fried chicken was served on Sundays and one of his clients counted his time in jail by the number of times he had eaten chicken.
That’s it. That’s the entire article. A paragraph about a former PD talking about going to the jail to eat the jail food. Ha.
Clara S. Foltz said,
April 12, 2007 at 12:21 am
The sad thing is, Rep. Toure is an amazing person.
misstyrios said,
April 12, 2007 at 11:38 am
Upon actually doing further research, I can see that Rep. Toure is, indeed, an amazing person and a staunch opponent of the death penalty. I just found it so odd to see an article devoted entirely to him noting jail food. I cannot imagine a situation of wanting to eat at the jail…or, god forbid, prosecutors actually going to the jail, let alone eating there. But maybe Oklahoma jails are much better than Massachusetts jails!