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Heath Commissioner Keith Reed ordered the jail, formally the Oklahoma County Detention Center, on July 15 to permit the surprise inspections or face administrative penalties.
The Oklahoma County jail has had its second inmate death of 2024. Jack Raymond Alexander Jr. died at a hospital Sunday two days after he was found attempting to hang himself in his cell, the jail ...
Senate Bill 1756, signed Thursday, requires volunteer supervisors to provide an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation criminal history background check. Third-party visitation rules changing ...
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC or ODOC) is an agency of the state of Oklahoma. DOC is responsible for the administration of the state prison system. It has its headquarters in Oklahoma City, [2] across the street from the headquarters of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety. The Board of Corrections are appointees: five members ...
The new lawsuit is the second filed this year in Oklahoma County District Court over an inmate's death. Andrew Avelar, 27, of Midwest City, died on Feb. 26, 2022, after being taking to a hospital.
The Oklahoma State Penitentiary, nicknamed "Big Mac", [3] is a prison of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections located in McAlester, Oklahoma, on 1,556 acres (6.30 km 2). Opened in 1908 with 50 inmates in makeshift facilities, today the prison holds more than 750 male offenders, [ 1 ] the vast majority of which are maximum-security inmates.
Several inmates at the Oklahoma County Detention Center were forced into “standing stress positions” and then abandoned inside dark rooms, where the catchy children’s song “Baby Shark ...
Northeast Oklahoma Correctional Center (inmate capacity 501) North Fork Correctional Center; Oklahoma State Penitentiary; William S. Key Correctional Center; Clara Waters Community Corrections Center; Enid Community Corrections Center; Kate Barnard Community Corrections Center (inmate capacity 260), closed in 2021 [1] Lawton Community ...