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

The contract, which includes an initial two-year term and three one-year options to renew, allots Trinity just over $5 per ...

Rep. Justin "J.J." Humphrey has sued t Department of Corrections, its leaders and House Speaker Kyle Hilbert, alleging ...

Oklahoma legislators heard a too-often-told ... concerns about staff shortages and horrible conditions in the state prison system. Six speakers at an interim study that focused on the prisons ...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals lifted a district court's stay of execution for John Hanson, allowing his execution on ...

The of evaluating criminal rehabilitation is left to individuals who spend less time doing that job than one might spend engaged in a hobby.

"I have been publicly warning how the violence in Oklahoma prisons has been escalating." Humphrey said it was time for state officials to declare a state of emergency within the corrections system.

Whenever the new system starts, mail must be sent ... sign up for our daily newsletter by clicking here. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) announced a new digital mail platform for ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is on ... people do not suddenly change their ways when they enter into the prison system. They will continue to be aggressive, a drug addict, a sexual ...

Mize left prison with the clothes she was wearing ... in the middle of a multi-year reform of the criminal legal system. In 2016, Oklahoma reclassified drug possession and certain theft crimes ...

If things had gone differently in the Oklahoma criminal justice system, family members of the ... start of a jury trial on charges that while in prison for rape he used a contraband cell phone ...

“I am not the only woman in an Oklahoma prison who is a survivor of domestic violence — far from it,” Wilkens wrote. “Our legal system must account for the circumstances behind every ...