Oklahoma spends millions in overtime pay to staff prisons
Oklahoma prisons are facing critical staffing shortages. Oklahoma Department of Corrections spent $15.5 million on overtime pay last fiscal year.
Joe Exotic calls new charges of wildlife trafficking, tiger slayings a ‘witch hunt’
In an email from jail to The Frontier, Maldonado-Passage said the new charges are part of an ongoing effort to frame him.
“This is now a witch hunt,” Maldonado-Passage said in the email.
Kevin Stitt rides outsider status to easy win in race for governor
In his victory speech, Kevin Stitt raised his hand above his head and thanked Jesus before talking of running Oklahoma more like a business.
First Oklahoma man sentenced to life without parole for drug trafficking now hopes for release
It’s too late for Leland Dodd to watch his children grow up, but he dreams of fishing in the Arkansas River again one day.
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Serving life without parole for drugs, Oklahoma man now hopes for release
In the early 1990s Oklahoma did not have any drug court programs that could have allowed Kevin Ott to seek treatment, and his life without parole sentence disqualified him from entering rehab.
Kevin Stitt’s teacher problem
Advertising campaigns touting Stitt’s support among educators have been criticized as being misleading and the gubernatorial candidate’s high school chemistry teacher says he won’t vote for his former student.
Joe Exotic kept an AR-15 he said was ‘For Carole’
Investigator testified “Joe would have nothing to lose to try and follow out his original plans and have her killed — or have one one of his cultish followers do it.”