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Good morning, Oklahoma. Here’s what we’re working on and what you should know before you start your day.
A House budget committee on Monday voted to move forward with spending $312 million to purchase a private prison in Lawton ...
The potential purchase would move Oklahoma out of the private prison business as the Lawton facility is the state's last privately-operated prison.
With the purchase of the facility, lawmakers said this will not only benefit the staff and inmates inside, but the every day ...
Oklahoma lawmakers propose $312 million plan to buy Lawton Correctional Facility, the state’s last private prison, to avoid ...
Lawmakers in Oklahoma will finish up their regular session by finalizing the state's budget for the upcoming year.
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” has been sentenced to 32 years in state prison for robbing a Tulsa-area ...