The Tulsa County Sheriff's Office have received a donation of backpacks from a nonprofit organization to give to kids they ...

Oklahoma child care providers sue DHS to restore $5/day pandemic-era subsidy for school-age children after federal funding ...

The estimated cost of an Oklahoma County detention center replacement project, which has been financed so far with $260 million of general obligation bonds, has soared to about $835 million. The ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Six inmates and a supervisor at the Orleans Parish Jail needed emergency medical treatment after deputies believe they found drugs in the facility Sunday night. The incident ...

Oklahoma County commissioners have all but said they plan to call a sales tax election to finish the new jail. Now they know how much money is needed.

Two more inmates died inside the Harris County Jail this week, according to a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, bringing the jail’s in-custody death total to 18 this year. The ...

Voters in Elmore County overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to increase taxes and fees to fund infrastructure projects. The "Enhance Elmore" package would have raised an additional $5.4 million ...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- The suspect in a double homicide last week in Carroll County is dead after authorities say he killed himself while being held in an Oklahoma jail. Travis Lee McConnell, 56, was ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma inmate whose life was spared by Gov. Kevin Stitt just moments before he was to receive a lethal injection on Thursday was later found unresponsive inside his cell ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate was hospitalized Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, officials said, just hours after being granted clemency on the same day he was scheduled to be ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top. By Brian HoweyMukta Joshi ...