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Allen was sentenced in December 2024 to 130 years in prison for killing Abby Williams and Libby German, who were found dead ...
Former Director of the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services Steven Harpe now leads the state's corrections ...
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 ...
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.
A leader in an Oklahoma-based cell of the Sinaloa Cartel was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, according to the United States ...
Four massive drug trafficking rings have been broken up in the past nine months and all of them were being run by gangs inside Oklahoma prisons. This followed several years of investigations.