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Lionel Ramos/Oklahoma WatchConditions are improving at a state prison where staff locked inmates in two-by-two-foot shower stalls for days in mid-August, but one lawmaker who specializes in criminal justice issues said the incident warrants further accountability efforts. -
City of LawtonThe mother of a mentally ill man who died in a Lawton correctional facility is filing a civil rights lawsuit.
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The clemency application for a death row inmate set to be executed next month includes new evidence that supports his claim he acted in self-defense.
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State personnel at Great Plains confined several prisoners in two-by-two-foot shower stalls for days with limited access to basic necessities, two correctional officers allege in an incident report obtained by Oklahoma Watch. An internal agency investigation confirmed that prisoners were in fact held in the shower stalls for several hours but ruled some of the officers’ claims as inclusive.
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Tyler Jay Marshall, 36, was charged with one count of threatening to murder a United States official and another count of interstate transmission of threatening communications for posts he made on Twitter.
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County jail officials can charge above the state minimum for housing Department of Corrections inmates, but any costs must be directly related to incarcerating the prisoners, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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Prisoner advocates argue the deaths highlight a need for universal air conditioning within Oklahoma’s correctional system.
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Oklahoma County commissioners Monday approved a site just north of Will Rogers World Airport for the new Oklahoma County Jail.
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The spiritual advisor for an Oklahoma death row inmate scheduled for execution next week completed a more than 120 mile walk to deliver a letter to Gov. Kevin Stitt asking for a 60-day reprieve.
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Oklahoma County District Attorney Vicki Behenna announced her office is seeking to dismiss their case against a man who, until recently, had been in prison for nearly fifty years.
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Change is coming to a southeast Oklahoma private prison plagued with violence and staffing shortages, but advocates for corrections staff and prisoners say further efforts are needed to improve conditions.
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A local coalition is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate three fatal police shootings in Oklahoma County after the new district attorney dropped the criminal charges against the involved officers.
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Jimcy McGirt, the man at the center of the landmark Supreme Court ruling, will get a new trial beginning Sept. 11.
