Legislators say the Jail Standards Act will establish clear minimum requirements for the state’s county detention and lockup ...

Oklahoma City nonprofit Diversion Hub will help more people overcome systemic issues within the criminal justice system. The ...

Humphrey stated in a press release, the reason for filing the bill was because he didn’t feel ODMHSAS provided sufficient ...

An Oktibbeha County man will spend the next three years in a federal prison for possessing a device that turns a pistol into ...

Grissom, 56, was sentenced to death for shooting Matthews during a home invasion near Watonga. Grissom broke into Dreu Kopf’s ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Prison inmates would, as a rule, have to use showers and restrooms designated for male- or female-only use under a bill that passed in the Oklahoma Senate. If Senate Bill 418 ...

An old prison in Laval, Que., will be turned into affordable housing, the Government of Canada has confirmed. In a press release Saturday, federal Minister of Public Services and Procurement and ...

DEVEN HOOPER FORMER CORRECTIONS OFFICER 00;16;53;15 - 00;17;12;00 "I'll find a way to provide for my family and it's not going to be at the expense of the state." DEVEN HOOPER USED TO BE A ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH ... Over the past five years, the Department of Corrections has received up to 299 sex offender inmates each year. The average sentence is 21 years and the majority ...

Gerthie Carolina, 81, was found dead in her home in Sasakwa, Oklahoma, on August 11, 1997. Her niece, Carolyn Foreman, and great-niece, Dakota Davis, were charged with first-degree murder and ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike that crippled the state’s correctional system ...

Groveland, N.Y. — After nearly three weeks on strike, corrections officers across New York state were expected to return to work Monday. They walked off the job Feb. 17, protesting unsafe ...