Deparment of Corrections

Despite efforts to reduce incarceration, Oklahoma's prison population is growing at a defiantly steady pace.The trend includes a surge of hundreds of…

Gov. Mary Fallin has released her executive budget sent to the legislature for fiscal year 2016 that begins July 1, 2015.Fallin urged lawmakers to spend…

The Department of Corrections defended its fiscal year 2016 appropriation requests Tuesday during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Public Safety…

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says the October death of inmate at the Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville was due to strangulation.The…

Serious violations by inmates plagued Oklahoma’s two largest halfway houses for three years before the state took action in January by removing all…

The head of Oklahoma's prisons system says he is confident the state can resume executions in November despite a federal judge's concern that the prison…

Security has been increased for Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Robert Patton following threatening phone calls and emails that began after a…