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The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) announced that visitation is cancelled at two facilities due to storm ...
Rep. Justin "J.J." Humphrey has sued the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, its leaders and House Speaker Kyle Hilbert, ...
Misleading evidence and prosecutors' misconduct put innocent people in prison, Miller says. Justice demands improvement in ...
The state expects to take over the facility July 25. “This move not only strengthens our public safety infrastructure, but also reflects our commitment to better outcomes for staff, inmates and the ...
The latest request for a death sentence came May 21. Prosecutors asked for that punishment for a drifter who is suspected of ...
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections will take over the privately run Lawton Correctional Facility on July 25, aiming to improve safety and oversight.
While the decision isn’t entirely up to Harpe, in his opinion, the State of Oklahoma is done with privately operated prisons.
The Frontier is suing the Oklahoma Department of Corrections after the agency refused to release incident reports on deaths ...
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections plans to purchase the Lawton Correctional Facility and take over operations by July 25 ...
Oklahoma lawmakers are considering a $312 million allocation to purchase the Lawton Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility from The GEO Group. The Lawton facility is the only privately-operated ...
Wendell Grissom, the death row inmate, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A prison official told the Associated Press that Grissom, 56, was pronounced ...
A court in Oklahoma on Monday sentenced serial bank robber 'Chiefsaholic' to a 32-year term in state prison that will run concurrently with his federal sentence of 17½ years.