Quinton Chandler
Quinton Chandler worked at StateImpact Oklahoma from January 2018 to August 2021, focusing on criminal justice reporting.
He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University with degrees in Economics and Marketing. Chandler was a student reporter at KOSU, and later a host and reporter at KBBI Radio in Homer, Alaska and education reporter at KTOO Public Media in Juneau, Alaska.
Quinton loves writing, reading and has an intense relationship with his Netflix account.
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The Oklahoma Department of Corrections said William S. Key Correctional Center in Ft. Supply is unsafe and too expensive to keep open.
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The Oklahoma City police detective who said a fellow officer shot Bennie Edwards in the back “unnecessarily,” is taking back his words. The retraction could jeopardize multiple criminal prosecutions.
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The Oklahoma City Council approved more than $227 million for the city’s police budget on Tuesday. The total is a $1.3 million increase over the last fiscal year. The budget approval comes one year after some residents demanded funds be taken away from police and invested in community resources.
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Prisons around the state briefly locked down and cancelled visitation over the weekend after a prisoner at North Fork Correctional Center in Sayre seriously injured multiple other prisoners.
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Oklahomans struggling with substance abuse no longer have to wait to get into some of the most intensive treatment for addiction. Treatment providers believe a $10 million increase in funding from the state Legislature two years ago is now saving lives.
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The state’s attorney general is resigning as details about his personal life become public.
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Felony court proceedings are scheduled against six Oklahoma City police officers charged in two separate killings.
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The Oklahoma County jail trust elected trustee Jim Couch to be its new chair on Monday. StateImpact’s Quinton Chandler reports the trust also welcomed former corrections chief Joe Allbaugh into its membership and passed a resolution that limits public comment in meetings.
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The Oklahoma City Police Department released video on Thursday of an officer shooting a man who said he was schizophrenic.
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Coronavirus restrictions were especially hard on Oklahoma’s prisoners. But hundreds of incarcerated women used a long distance writing program to connect with people outside prison walls. StateImpact’s Quinton Chandler reports the women and their pen pals encouraged each other through the pandemic.