Allegations of inhumane conditions at McAlester Prison have prompted calls for an audit from both inmates and ...

>> Video Below: Committee to introduce resolution urging commissioner to find funding for new Oklahoma County jail The county currently only has $260 million of funding from a bond voters approved in ...

Where will hundreds of millions of dollars come from to build a new Oklahoma County Detention Center? It's a question many have been asking for years, and it is one Oklahoma County commissioner tried ...

Health officials wanted inspectors allowed into the jail anytime. The jail trust wanted them barred from ever conducting surprise inspections.

Authorities say a man wanted in connection with a deadly domestic stabbing at a homeless encampment last week in south Oklahoma City has been arrested.

These men with Kansas ites were prison inmates on San Francisco Bay's Alcatraz Island, where President Trump suggests ...

The latest request for a death sentence came May 21. Prosecutors asked for that punishment for a drifter who is suspected of ...

Kathy Sanders has sought answers about the terrorist attack that killed her grandsons. She hopes a new piece of evidence will ...

Its authors say a new Oklahoma law protects the privacy rights of incarcerated women. Critics believe it's targeted at transgender people.

was sentenced to 32 years in prison. This final verdict came two and a half years after Badubar was caught by authorities fleeing from a local bank robbery in the state. Badubar is already serving ...

The Independent has requested comment from Walters. Born in McAlester, home of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Walters was baptized at the local Main and Oklahoma Church of Christ. Like his ...

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 ...