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

The House and Senate approved a pair of bills to purchase the state's last private prison outright for $312 million.

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

Officials apprehended an inmate on Tuesday who "unlawfully" walked away from an Oklahoma City prison, according to the ...

The of evaluating criminal rehabilitation is left to individuals who spend less time doing that job than one might spend ...

The potential purchase would move Oklahoma out of the private prison business as the Lawton facility is the state's last privately-operated prison.

The Oklahoma Legislature's FY 26 budget deal features three major capital projects, a tax cut trigger and mostly level base ...

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

Paul Ruiz and Earl Van Denton, who had escaped from an Oklahoma prison in 1977, were eventually convicted of capital murder and executed in 1997 for their crime spree that included the murders of ...