Oklahoma prisons

Two Oklahoma legislators have launched a bipartisan effort to make State Question 780 retroactive. The bill, which voters approved three years ago,…

It’s impossible to predict who will commit a crime in the future, but clinicians at a program funded by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and...

Oklahoma imprisons more people than any other state, which means the Sooner State remains the largest per capita incarcerator in the world. State…

Oklahoma now has the highest incarceration rate in the world, reports to The Tulsa World. According to a new study, Oklahoma recently overtook Louisiana…

According to the latest numbers for incarceration rates across the U.S., Oklahoma held the second highest per capita incarceration rate among all…

Oklahoma’s prisons have long been overcrowded and underfunded. For example, the state’s three women’s prisons are at 129 percent of capacity.To make…

The State of Oklahoma imprisons twice as many women as any other state, reports The Atlantic. A recent documentary made by two filmmakers working on…

The State of Oklahoma will not execute any inmates in 2017.As KOKH reports, this year marks the third straight year that the death chamber has remained…

Overcrowding in Oklahoma’s prisons is still a major problem as the dog days of summer approach, and state Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh…

New criminal justice laws in Oklahoma, approved by voters last November, went into effect last week but as Oklahoma Watch reports, the laws are still…