Federal law currently prohibits the use of cell phone jamming technology in prisons. However, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking the U.S. Congress to change that.

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is on pace this year to exceed last year's total of 126 inmate deaths, records for the first six months of 2024 show.

Oklahoma Attorney General Drummond is advocating for Congress to allow cellphone jamming technology in state prisons to combat gang violence, drug trafficking, and witness intimidation.

An Oklahoma County jail inmate accused of pistol-whipping a woman for her car outside a casino has died. Everett D. Edwards, ...

Oklahoma corrections officials said serious incident reports declined by 40%, and Prison Rape Elimination Act complaints dropped 60% after body cameras were deployed at the Oklahoma State ...

Several inmates in an Oklahoma prison say they were locked in filthy shower stalls, some as small as 2 feet by 2 feet,* for days on end. In a lawsuit filed last week, the inmates claim that this ...

Rising prison health care costs are prompting corrections officials to rethink everything from medication distribution to appointment scheduling.

Oklahoma’s pardon and parole board voted against recommending clemency for Benjamin Cole, 57, who was sentenced to death for the brutal 2002 killing of his nine-month-old daughter Brianna. The ...

Contraband cell phones are the principal means through which inmates extort the family members of other inmates, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Inspector General Jacob Wheeler said.

Oklahoma legislators heard a too-often-told story Wednesday about a man killed in a state prison, as experts raised concerns about staff shortages and horrible conditions in the state prison system.

Questions are mounting about why an Oklahoma sex offender accused of killing six people and himself was ever freed from prison in the first place.

Contraband cell phones are the principal means through which inmates extort the family members of other inmates, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Inspector General Jacob Wheeler said.