The Lawton Correction and Rehabilitation Facility was Oklahoma's last remaining private prison. The state took over the facility and renamed it Red Rock Correctional Center on July 2,5 2025. (Kyletta Ray/Southwest Ledger) For the first time since the mid-1990s, Oklahoma is out of the private prison business. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections took control of [...]

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Attorney General Gentner Drummond appointed the Oklahoma District Attorneys Council’s assistant executive director as a special assistant prosecutor in the Richard Glossip case, raising eyebrows in legal circles and prompting criticism from supporters of the former death row prisoner.

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A tip from a former Guymon police officer offers hard evidence of police abuses characteristic of rural Oklahoma.

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The ongoing saga of James Havens’ attempt to secure medical parole reveals intransigence at the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and tests the integrity of the Oklahoma justice system.

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The Trinity Services Group’s proposed menu skimped on protein and was padded with sodium and fat, according to a protest from a competing bidder.

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