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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Lax oversight of inmates at a halfway house in Oklahoma City, including one inmate whose charred remains were discovered in a burned vehicle last month, led state prison officials to cancel its contract with the facility's operator, the head of Oklahoma's prison system said Monday.

Catalyst Behavioral Services did not conduct inmate counts properly, allowed inmates to come and go without accountability and didn't have properly trained staff, among other problems, said Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh.

"The department has been, for years, at wits' end on corr...