Jim Grego
Jim Grego is a native of Latimer County, born in McAlester, the eighth of 12 children. The family lived on a small farm southwest of Wilburton. He worked his way through school at Eastern Oklahoma State College and Oklahoma State University, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in animal science in 1977.
“The purpose of this trip was to gain ideas about what they are doing and how we might apply some of this knowledge as we make an attempt to revive our own prison rodeo at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester,”
(Oklahoma House of Representatives) “This could bring a return on investment to the Department of Corrections and the state and local economy, and we could all reap the economic reward it would bring,”
(Oklahoma House of Representatives)