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The Office of Management and Enterprise Services sided with a competing bidder for the $74 million contract after that ...
Clara Wilbanks Waters, the first female warden of an all-male penal institution in the United States, was born.
Inmates at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite are finding purpose through creating braille books for kids.
Oklahoma has executed death row inmate John Hanson for the 1999 carjacking and murder of a 77-year-old woman and an innocent bystander.
John Fitzgerald Hanson complained in a lawsuit about his clemency hearing before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.
The inmate has been serving a five-year burglary sentence since October 2024. The search has ended for an inmate at an Oklahoma correctional facility who "unlawfully" walked away from prison ...
Paul Chambers spent two months facing decades in prison, or death, for allegedly insulting Thailand’s king. He, a renowned ...
Gov. Kevin Stitt in his State of the State address highlighted the case of a man who struggled to get a fresh start after his release from prison because of court-ordered debts that totaled nearly $30 ...
He will receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Hanson, who is named as George John ...
The state of Oklahoma executed death row inmate John Hanson on Thursday. Officials say Hanson and an accomplice carjacked and ...
Oklahoma will seek a new murder trial for longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip but next round without the death penalty.
A mother and her three children were rescued from their Oklahoma home by a group of prison inmates from Mack Alford Correctional Center after a tornado devastated their community and stranded them ...