The Tulsa insurance executive and state lawmaker is betting voters want a business-minded conservative rather than a political firebrand. But he’s missed some votes in the Legislature.
The mother of a 23-year-old man claims jail employees failed to adequately monitor him after he told them he had recently attempted suicide.
A federally designated watchdog is examining conditions at the municipal jail, citing concerns over medical care and treatment of people with mental illness.
Tulsa city officials are blocking access to records that could answer basic questions about events leading up to detainee deaths.
Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols has ordered a review of jail operations after we uncovered a series of deaths at the facility.
After Brian Bonner died from a treatable illness in Tulsa’s city jail, records reveal a pattern of preventable deaths and ignored warnings.
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Current and former employees describe a punishing pace of work and questionable safety standards at a Heavener plant where recent immigrants fill a constant need for laborers.
