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State leaders have asked the court for 90 days between executions to combat trauma, staffing shortages and reduce the potential for errors.
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A Senate panel on Wednesday passed a bill that would provide $8.3 million to restart the prison rodeo in McAlester.
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More state employees working remotely has opened up office space in some state agency buildings, allowing agencies to share buildings or sublease.
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Officials expect they will likely ask lawmakers for additional appropriations once plans and costs are finalized
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County jail officials can charge above the state minimum for housing Department of Corrections inmates, but any costs must be directly related to incarcerating the prisoners, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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While the corrections department does not suspect the deaths are heat-related, prisoner advocates say the situation highlights a need for universal air conditioning in Oklahoma’s prison system
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The spiritual advisor for several of Oklahoma’s death row inmates filed a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections last week.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics we discuss a new report from the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency against the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust's spending on cessation programs, Epic Virtual Charter School's new board giving $2.5M to a company owned by the brother of its former chairman and a study looking at 18 fatalities from police pursuits over a five-year period.
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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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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.