Keaton Ross
Keaton Ross is a Report for America corps member who covers democracy for Oklahoma Watch.
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A June 30 FCC order cleared the way for phone call rates, and commission payments to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, to increase. -
State officials envision drones, call monitoring and AI technologies as the future of Oklahoma prisons, but advocates worry the tools create risks that extend beyond incarceration. -
As federal spending on immigrant enforcement and detention soars, a private prison company is advertising detention officer positions at vacant prisons in Watonga and Sayre. -
The backlog at county jails has increased 74% since 2021. -
Oklahoma lobbyists spent more than $220,000 on food and beverages for lawmakers during the 2025 legislative session. -
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections will spend about $74 million over two years to outsource its food service operations to the Trinity Services Group, a Florida-based company that feeds more than 300,000 prisoners and pretrial detainees daily.
