President Obama To Visit Oklahoma Next Week

White House officials confirmed Friday morning that President Barack Obama will travel to Oklahoma next week to visit the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma in Durant, and the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno.

President Obama will travel to Durant, Oklahoma, on Wednesday, July 15, to visit the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and deliver remarks on expanding economic opportunity.

According to White House Spokesperson Keith Maley, the President will remain overnight in Oklahoma. On Thursday, July 16, the President will visit the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, marking the first visit by a sitting President to a federal prison.

While there, President Obama will meet with law enforcement officials and inmates and conduct an interview for a Vice documentary that will air in the fall about the realities of our criminal justice system. 

Obama last visited the state in 2013 after a major tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore.

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