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.
Judge: Inmate seeking to have his 1991 murder conviction overturned can move forward
Tulsa County District Judge Sharon Holmes said during a status conference that Corey Atchison’s case will advance in a second evidentiary hearing in January.
Federal grand jury indicts former Mayes County deputy on illegally obtaining meth, altering evidence
Until July, Mull headed the Mayes County Sheriff’s Office’s drug interdiction unit, which conducts surveillance, intelligence and undercover drug enforcement operations.
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.
Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler wins second term
Kunzweiler, the Republican candidate who first succeeded his former boss Tim Harris as DA in 2014, jumped out to a slight early lead and slowly built his advantage throughout the night.
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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‘No one wants him:’ The state says it can’t care for Russell Ables. There’s nowhere else for him to go.
No state agency wants Russell Ables. He was deemed incompetent, dangerous and unable to live on his own in 2015. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals said agencies abandoned their duties to find him permanent placement.
