The civil and criminal cases against Gary Young are believed to be the first tests of Oklahoma’s Hidden Predators Act, which extended the age alleged child sexual abuse victims could file cases.
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.
Though fights broke out only at men’s prisons, women’s facilities were also placed on lockdown.
Justin Xaochay Thao, 20, died in an Oklahoma City hospital after Grady County jailers found him hanging in an isolated in cell. In the time leading up to his death, Thao yelled out several pleas to jailers, video provided by the family’s attorney shows.
The report, released on Monday, found a preterm birthrate of 11.4 percent in the state, an increase compared to 11.1 percent last year
Since July 1, only 243 inmates — or about 8 percent of those affected — have received drugs that could cure the disease, according to data provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
Connie Williams’s sexual assault complaint wasn’t investigated for seven years.
In the past year, cases of congenital syphilis — when a mother passes syphilis along to the baby during pregnancy — increased by 92 percent. There were 12 cases recorded in 2018 and 23 cases recorded so far this year, data shows.
