TU student Talluah Smith interviewing an inmate during a visit to the Eddie Warrior Center.
The Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center houses almost 800 women in a minimum security facility in Taft, a few miles west of Muskogee, Okla.
The prison was opened in 1988 at the site of the former Oklahoma Deaf, Blind, and Orphan Institute, which was once headed by Dr. Eddie Warrior.
The following statistics on the women at the Warrior Center were provided by Department of Corrections officials at the Center.
Eddie Warrior Center Inmate Statistics:
81 percent have children
75 percent involved in drug and non-violent crime
30 percent have no GED
71 percent report abusive relationships
33 percent report sexual abuse
29 percent report physical abuse
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