Jail Officer Arrested, Accused Of Smuggling Contraband To Prisoners In Atoka County

An Oklahoma Department of Corrections officer is in jail, charged with running a contraband smuggling operation at a prison in Atoka County.

Investigators say Sergeant Glenda Page had contraband like meth, marijuana and cell phones at her house.

DOC said it's an everyday battle to try to keep contraband out of prisons. But they say this was more than an employee slipping a prisoner cigarettes; they say Glenda Page was working with prisoners and people on the outside to run a full-scale operation.

DOC says the investigation started after a contraband drop at Mack Alford Correctional Center near Stringtown in August.

Agents with the Office of Inspector General did several interviews and learned Page was behind the operation to get the contraband into the prison. Agents say Page admitted to being involved.

Agents later searched her house and found cell phones, tobacco, meth, cocaine, marijuana, vapes and baggies.

DOC says contraband inside prisons is a danger to both prisoners and employees. They say some prisoners will use a contraband cell phone to run criminal networks and sell drugs, even order murder, right from their prison cell.

DOC says it's hard enough trying to keep contraband out of prisons, let alone when employees help.

"It's an everyday thing and it's one of the reasons we went to the digital mail, to help reduce that through the mail because soaked paper in different illegal substances was coming in that way,” said Kay Thompson with Oklahoma DOC.

DOC says they don't believe any other employees were involved.