Oklahoma lawmakers passed a $12.5 billion budget for 2026 that includes a state income tax cut, a $312 million private prison purchase, and incentives for major business investments.

Oklahoma Legislature concludes its session, focusing on the state budget and major development projects. Despite the smoothest budget process in years, the minority party raises concerns about ...

In the city that care forgot, the party had made its way into the prison. More than a decade before the recent New Orleans jailbreak, the city’s lawless lockup went viral ...

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

Oklahoma's answer to the federal DOGE has seen success in savings costs in recent weeks, but its public input portal was ...

Attorneys for Oklahoma death row inmate John Fitzgerald Hanson filed a lawsuit against the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board ...

James Havens, serving a life sentence for murder, is seeking compassionate release due to terminal illness, but faces opposition from victim advocates and the Department of Corrections.

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

A man who escaped from a southeast Oklahoma prison nearly 19 years ago is once again in state custody, thanks to the combined ...

A top school official who wants to eliminate the source of school revenue, a department head mystified by a budget shortfall?

A House budget committee on Monday voted to move forward with spending $312 million to purchase a private prison in Lawton ...

Senate bill 418, which aims to protect the privacy rights of incarcerated women, has been signed into law by Governor Kevin ...