The Frontier is tracking every jail death in Oklahoma in 2019. We hope to uncover more about how and why people die in Oklahoma jails. 

The raise, which was voted on by the board after it was discussed in executive session, puts Sullivan’s annual salary at $330,000.

One mother said employees would only allow her son to sit on a hard plastic chair with a piece of paper taped to it that read, “(Eric) only.” He was kept secluded from other boys, she said.

Most politicians questioned by The Frontier in the wake of the recent mass shootings in Texas and Ohio supported mental health reforms and the Second Amendment.

Lawmakers took tens of thousands of dollars in donations from individuals and PACs who were not registered as lobbyists during the session, and PACs made thousands of dollars in donations to legislators leading up to the session and after the session.