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Over the last few days, Governor Kevin Stitt has announced three key leadership appointments, subject to Senate confirmation.
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The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has consistently failed to address critical staffing shortages and operational inefficiencies in its aging prison facilities. The Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency proposes several solutions.
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The Department of Corrections is asking the legislature to lower its minimum hiring age from 20 to 18.
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The Oklahoma Department of Corrections said William S. Key Correctional Center in Ft. Supply is unsafe and too expensive to keep open.
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Coronavirus restrictions were especially hard on Oklahoma’s prisoners. But hundreds of incarcerated women used a long distance writing program to connect…
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Glen Blake told the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board this month that his clients seeking parole were just hit with hard news. A policy that gave Oklahoma…
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In the early days of the pandemic, Geneva Phillips was ordered to stay in her bunk nearly all day for almost a month. She remembers being sore and…
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Like much of the rest of the nation, Oklahoma is still trying to manage the spread of coronavirus. While deaths remain relatively low, White House metrics…
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Five hundred and ten people incarcerated in state and federal prisons have died from COVID-19 according to prison data collected between March 31 and June…
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Jonna Wolf is worried there are a lot more than the two COVID-19 cases being reported in Oklahoma’s population of nearly 24,000 prisoners.Her fiancé,…