Cleveland County detention officers and Turn Key Health Clinics staff refused care and falsified records as 38-year-old mother Shannon Hanchett’s physical and mental health deteriorated, the federal complaint alleges.

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A statue of an inmate wearing a striped shirt and riding a bucking bull stands in the median of Carl Albert Parkway near the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. The prison used to hold inmate rodeos until funds dried up in 2010. (Whitney Bryen/Oklahoma Watch) Efforts to revive Oklahoma’s prison rodeo stalled in May, but [...]

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The Great Plains Correctional Facility reopened in May 2023, but the private company that manages the facility has refused to pay the town nearly $1 million in outstanding prisoner per diems.

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