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The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has issued a statement about the development of a new protocol for the state's death penalty.
A tip led to the arrest Monday evening of a prison escapee who walked away from a LeFlore County correctional center last year.
In an attempt to reduce its prison population, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections is developing a program that would release low-risk offenders into the community under supervision.
A hidden camera video exposes possible corruption behind the walls of a state prison.
Seven inmates were injured Friday night after a fight broke out at the prison in Sayre, state corrections department officials said Saturday.
Oklahoma's prison population topped 61,000 for the first time in Department of Corrections history.
Water service has been restored to the Lexington Correctional Center and Joseph Harp Correctional Center after crews worked through the night to replace the prisons' primary water pump.
A contraband search of the Center Point halfway house in Oklahoma City, led officials to a false wall in a room allowing inmates to leave the facility after coming back and checking in with security from daily work assignments.
Authorities are investigating the death of an inmate, who died after a brawl at the Mack Alford Correctional Center in Stringtown, Oklahoma, Wednesday night.
Two inmates were arrested after authorities said they escaped from the Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center in Hodgen, Oklahoma, to pick up three duffel bags full of contraband by a nearby road early Monday morning.
Gov. Mary Fallin and Republican legislative leaders say they've reached an agreement to provide emergency funding for public schools and the state's prison system to complete the current fiscal year.
The Department of Corrections is concerned about prison safety after Oklahoma finance officials ordered an additional 4 percent budget cut to state agencies.
