The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office has failed to protect young girls in the jail from sexual assaults and holds them in a medical unit often single staffed with a male officer, a violation of its own policies, an investigation by The Frontier has found.
For more than seven years, state auditors have pointed out mismanagement of inmate trust funds held by the Sheriff’s Office. On Tuesday, the DA asked for an investigation.
Assistant District Attorney Kevin Gray told the judge that jurors would be questioned in two stages, one to deal with impact of publicity and another stage for traditional questions regarding jurors’ backgrounds.
Relatives of De’Marchoe Carpenter and Malcolm Scott want to know why the Sheriff’s Office suddenly moved the two to solitary confinement cells this week. The men claim they were wrongfully convicted of a 1994 killing.
Former CEO says “there are fair questions to be raised” about whether Williams deal can be closed.
A tort claim filed by a former TCSO major says even after the Robert Bates report surfaced internally, the former sheriff told him to deny it existed and withhold it.
At his execution, killer Michael Lee Wilson’s last words included a confession: “Malcolm Scott and De’Marchoe Carpenter are innocent.” Should they be freed?
A divided Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge a filed by a Jenks Police sergeant running for sheriff against another candidate.
