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The ex-police officer is the first in the nation to face harsher penalties under the 2022 reauthorization of the original act.
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Cleveland County Detention Center staff recklessly disregarded Shannon Hanchett’s constitutional rights and contributed to her in-custody death amid a mental health crisis, a federal lawsuit filed on Jan. 25 claimed.
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Medical marijuana has been legal in Oklahoma since the passage of State Question 788 in 2018, but multiple women in the state have been prosecuted for using it since then — because they were pregnant.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has denied a request from Oklahoma County to build a new jail on land near Will Rogers World Airport.
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The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board is considering an administrative rule change that would place several restrictions on when Oklahoma prisoners may seek commutation.
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Oklahoma County commissioners said Monday that a livestock market is not in danger of being shut down to make room for the new county jail.
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Despite a recommendation of clemency from the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, the state executed its fourth and final death row inmate of 2023 on Thursday morning.
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Oklahoma is set to execute its fourth death row inmate of the year on Thursday morning.
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Conditions 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.
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The 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.