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Oklahoma Department of Corrections Offender Advocacy Chief Nicole Flemming speaks to inmates at Joseph Harp Correctional Center on Oct. 13 in Lexington.
The Oklahoma Corrections Department has agreed that condemned prisoners in the future can have a personal spiritual advisor in the execution chamber. The spiritual advisor will have to pass a ...
Speakers discussed prison conditions in Oklahoma and expressed concern for safety, but the Department of Corrections said they’ve made improvements
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 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. They ...
Dick Conner Correctional Center is an Oklahoma Department of Corrections state prison for men located north of the town of Hominy, Osage County, Oklahoma.The medium-security facility opened in 1979 with an original design capacity of 400, and is named for former Oklahoma State Penitentiary warden and Osage County sheriff R.B. "Dick" Conner.
Sep. 1—OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma's corrections director is backing a $9.3 million effort to revive the state's prison rodeo, an event that was once among the largest in the nation, drawing ...
In 2016, inmate Amber Hilberling was found dead in her cell from apparent suicide. [8] A 2016 lawsuit claimed the warden allowed sexual assault to happen to inmates. [9] In 2020, Mabel Bassett was a site mentioned in the protests outside of the Department of Corrections headquarters for their poor response in handling the COVID-19 outbreaks. [10]