
Sierra Pfeifer
Sierra Pfeifer is a reporter covering mental health and addiction at KOSU.
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Mental health providers across Oklahoma are assessing the impacts of $40 million in contract line item cuts from the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services made public last week.
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At the direction of Gov. Kevin Stitt, state troopers were dispatched to encampments in Tulsa on Friday morning with instructions to clear people inhabiting state land.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said he's instructed the state's Department of Transportation to put up notices telling people camped along highways to clear the area and for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol to clear people experiencing homelessness off state land.
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A second Oklahoma County judge stepped away from former death row inmate Richard Glossip's case Thursday.
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Providers for mental health treatment and substance abuse services across Oklahoma are facing major funding cuts.
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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.
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Pregnant Oklahomans have a new resource: the state's first psychiatrist dedicated to their mental health.
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Forty-five people living in an encampment along General Pershing Boulevard in Oklahoma City have moved into housing through the city's Encampment Rehousing Initiative.
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The judge overseeing court proceedings for former death row inmate Richard Glossip recused herself from his case Thursday morning.
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A few hundred protestors gathered at the Oklahoma State Capitol to call for State Superintendent Ryan Walters' impeachment on Saturday afternoon.