The state of Oklahoma is undertaking a first-in-the-nation initiative emptying jails and prisons of criminal illegal ...

At an event on Monday, Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt highlighted multiple bills he recently signed into law, including Senate Bill 418, which prohibits prison officials from housing men in ...

Wood, 45, is next up to be put to death by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. The AG initially had requested an execution date of Sept. 11. In a cryptic order, the ...

Authorities are housing immigration detainees at an Oklahoma private prison that was once the site of the deadliest prison ...

Two men could get death sentences if convicted of murder over the fatal shooting of a government witness. The trial has been pushed back to 2027.

The report, released by nonprofit Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform, concludes property crime has gone down by nearly a ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections finalized the purchase of the state’s last private prison Friday morning, after concerns about its safety continued to surface.

McALESTER — An inmate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary has been charged in the alleged assault on a prison guard. The McAlester News-Capital reports that 34-year-old Ronnie Ray Shelton was ...