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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Oklahoma and Tulsa Counties, which make up about 37% of the state’s population and 60% of prison admissions, have both scaled ...

Oklahomans gathered to pray outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester as the state carried out the execution of convicted killer Charles Warner on Thursday. They prayed for Adrianna ...

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 ...

Three men attempted to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, tobacco and cell phones over the wall and into the Oklahoma State Penitentiary last week, according to the McAlester, Oklahoma Police ...