The Oklahoma Department of Corrections plans to purchase the Lawton Correctional Facility and take over operations by July 25.

Legislative budget committees on Monday voted to move forward with spending $312 million to purchase a private prison in Lawton that the state uses to house about 2,300 inmates.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted to deny clemency for George John Hanson, who was sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of 77-year-old Mary Bowles.

The Prison Journalism Project found a willing partner in Kay Thompson, DOC's communications chief. The former reporter gave approval and support to the projects.

On Thursday, an 18-year-old Afghan citizen living in Oklahoma pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit an act of terrorism on Election Day in November of last year.

After taking a tour of the county jail, newly elected County Commissioner Jason Lowe and a group of spiritual leaders from Northeast Oklahoma City met outside the facility to share their impressions.

An inmate who was transferred to Oklahoma last month to face the death penalty now has an execution date.

Charges against an Oklahoma City police officer who hospitalized an elderly Vietnamese man were dismissed late last year. The officer has now resigned, according to a OKCPD spokesperson.

Wendell Grissom was the first Oklahoman to receive the death penalty in 2025. Grissom died by lethal injection Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

A bill to reduce sentences for domestic abuse survivors who "fail to protect" their children failed in the Oklahoma legislature. Prosecutors say the state law targets enablers, not victims. Advocates argue it overwhelmingly punishes mothers trapped in abusive relationships.

A megachurch founder and former spiritual advisor to Donald Trump was indicted in Oklahoma on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.

George John Hanson, who was serving a sentence in federal prison, was transferred back to Oklahoma late Saturday so he can be executed later this year.