FACILITY OVERVIEW
Allen Gamble Correctional Center is a medium security facility for men located in Holdenville. The medium-security facility has a capacity of 1,723 inmates.
Formerly known as Davis Correctional Facility, on Oct. 1, 2023 the prison was renamed the Allen Gamble Correctional Center.
Sgt. Joe Allen Gamble, Jr., who went by Allen, lost his life at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, Okla., on June 5, 2000, after a coworker, Officer William Callaway, sent a distress call. Callaway was attacked by an inmate and stabbed 13 times. He was able to escape the dayroom before Gamble entered and survived.
Not knowing Callaway was safe, without hesitation or regard for his own life, Sgt. Gamble answered the call. Entering the dayroom, he was ambushed by the inmate and was stabbed twice in his neck. He left the dayroom to seek medical treatment but succumbed to his wounds – giving the ultimate sacrifice to the State of Oklahoma.