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Despite Oklahoma's high incarceration rates, a Senate committee has approved a half-dozen bills to increase the criminal penalties for various crimes,…
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The Oklahoma House has shot down a bill to allow criminals to begin earning credits for good behavior earlier in their sentence after a lawmaker warned…
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A plan to target Oklahoma's highest-in-the-nation female incarceration rate with a prison diversion pilot program in Tulsa has unanimously passed the…
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Oklahoma's Department of Corrections has temporarily banned news media from bringing cameras or any recording equipment inside its prisons.The Tulsa World…
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State corrections officials say an inmate has died at the Oklahoma State Reformatory.Officials say the inmate was found Wednesday morning in his cell with…
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Despite a recent report that Oklahoma's ratio of prison guards to offenders is among the worst in the nation, Governor Mary Fallin's top attorney says he…
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A third group of women will graduate from a prison diversion program next week.The women are part of the ReMerge of Oklahoma County program. The…
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A Pew Charitable Trusts report says the cost of health care for prison inmates in Oklahoma bucked a national trend and fell by 6 percent from 2001 to…
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The Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, the oldest prison in the state, has seen its inmate population fall to less than half of what it was five…