Oklahoma lawmakers propose $312 million plan to buy Lawton Correctional Facility, the state’s last private prison, to avoid ...

With the purchase of the facility, lawmakers said this will not only benefit the staff and inmates inside, but the every day ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson is set to be executed by lethal injection June 12 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

Paul Ruiz and Earl Van Denton, who had escaped from an Oklahoma prison in 1977, were eventually convicted of capital murder ...

A Kansas City Chiefs superfan known as “ChiefsAholic” was sentenced Monday in an Oklahoma courtroom to serve 32 years in ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt and legislative leaders on Wednesday announced an agreement on a $12.6 billion state budget for the upcoming ...

Lawmakers weigh $312M purchase of Lawton prison amid safety concerns and the end of a contract with The GEO Group.

Miller received a no-parole life prison sentence for his role in the crimes. Hanson, who appeared before the board via a video link to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, expressed ...

A court in Oklahoma on Monday sentenced serial bank robber 'Chiefsaholic' to a 32-year term in state prison that will run ...

A jury found 19-year-old Canaan Jenkins guilty of assault and battery with a deadly weapon in connection with the Oklahoma ...