Oklahoma prisons

Tremane Wood was found unresponsive in his cell hours after he was scheduled to be executed. State officials say he had a "medical event" as a result of stress and dehydration.

Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency for Tremane Wood, who has been on Oklahoma's death row for more than two decades.

Former Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Steven Harpe approved a million-dollar deal with a private vendor in early April to install AI call monitoring software in seven state prisons.

After serving more than four decades for first-degree murder, Tony Mann is applying for commutation. His younger brother, convicted for the same crime, is getting out of prison later this month.

Months after a deal to end a class-action lawsuit over treatment for people with severe mental illness, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health still can't provide an accurate count of how many people are waiting in jail for treatment and for how long, consultants found.

Oklahoma leaders are backing a federal proposal that would let state prisons jam cellphone signals, saying it's the best way to keep contraband devices from fueling crime from behind bars.

Oklahoma's next execution may not go forward as originally planned. Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking Oklahoma's appeals court to switch the order of people scheduled to be killed.

State officials envision drones, call monitoring and AI technologies as the future of Oklahoma prisons, but advocates worry the tools create risks that extend beyond incarceration.

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.

As some of Oklahoma's older privately owned prisons are eyed as opportunities for expanding federal immigration detention capacity, one Oklahoma think tank aims to remind residents why more privatized incarceration is a bad deal for them and the state.