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 sent KOCO 5 a photo of cellphones confiscated from state prisons. If Drummond gets his way, technology will block those devices from working on prison grounds.

Oklahoma Watch reported on a cell phone detection wristband pilot launched by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 2020. The pilot failed after gang members threatened to assault anyone who ...

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.

An Oklahoma County jail inmate accused of pistol-whipping a woman ... He had been found to be unresponsive in his cell during ...

How Oklahoma's aging prison population is stretching the state's corrections budget. ... His sole misconduct in the 21st century was for putting a piece of cardboard in a cell door in 2012.

Oklahoma Watch reported on a cell phone detection wristband pilot launched by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 2020. The pilot failed after gang members threatened to assault anyone who ...