GEO Group (GEO) agreed to sell its Lawton, Oklahoma, correctional facility to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections for ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections will take over the privately run Lawton Correctional Facility on July 25, aiming to improve safety and oversight.

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is planning to purchase the Lawton Correction Facility and take over operations by July 25.

all current employees at the Lawton facility will be offered jobs with DOC, pending successful background checks. The transition is part of a broader effort to bring Oklahoma’s prison system ...

On Sunday, the highest area of risk shifts into the southern Plains, especially the Texas Panhandle into western-north Texas ...

If approved by the Board of Corrections, the state will take over the last private prison in Oklahoma in July.

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has agreed to purchase the Lawton Correctional Facility from the GEO Group, bringing the state one step closer to a fully unified corrections system and ...

Multiple rounds of severe weather are targeting a large swath of the South this weekend. More than 40 million Americans are ...

I wasn’t certain what to expect. But it was a confusing combination of solemnity, peace and reverence I came away with after ...

Night - Partly cloudy with a 49% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 7 mph (11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 62 °F (16.7 °C). Mostly cloudy with a high of 79 °F (26.1 °C) and a 73% ...