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For Oklahoma inmates, the state’s legalization of medical marijuana will not translate into access in the state prison system.Marijuana of any type will…
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A new dog-training facility opened this week at Oklahoma’s largest women-only prison.Corrections officials and women enrolled in the Guardian Angels…
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More than 30 people sit uncomfortably on hard, wooden benches under the watchful eyes of Judge Tim Henderson. It’s late morning in Henderson’s courtroom…
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Inmates in Oklahoma prisons must have advanced liver disease before becoming eligible for treatment of hepatitis C, a potentially deadly and growing…
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Oklahoma has one in eight inmates who are serving a life sentence or a sentence of at least 50 years, a new report using 2016 data shows.The report,…
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The number of people sentenced to Oklahoma prisons in 2017 fell slightly, but the state remains second in the nation in overall incarceration and could be…
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In 1988, six firefighters in Kansas City, Missouri, were killed in a blast at a highway construction site. Nine years later, five people were convicted of…
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Padlocks are welded onto cell doors at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary for when the electronic locks fail.The state’s three prisons for women are at 129…
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Robyn Allen saw her daughter for the first time in two years from across the yard of Oklahoma’s largest women’s prison, the Mabel Bassett Correctional…
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Editor's note: The House gave final legislative approval to this bill on a 90-0 vote Monday, and it now goes to Gov. Mary Fallin's desk.A bill moving…