Testimony: Sheriff’s Office had history of falsifying records
Billy McKelvey, a former Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office captain, testified Monday that the Sheriff’s Office falsified several documents involving Elliott Williams’ death.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter February 27, 2017
Billy McKelvey, a former Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office captain, testified Monday that the Sheriff’s Office falsified several documents involving Elliott Williams’ death.
Ziva Branstetter Kassie McClung February 25, 2017
Former TCSO Capt. Billy McKelvey testified about his investigation into the 2011 death of Elliott Williams in Tulsa’s jail. The investigation found that dozens of detention and medical staff could have helped Williams but did not because of an assumption that he was faking paralysis.
Dylan Goforth February 24, 2017
While private prison company CCA reaped more than $2 million in taxpayer benefits, one of their prisons saw the deadliest riot in Oklahoma history. Meanwhile state prisons languished under financial difficulties.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter February 23, 2017
During the first day of testimony in a federal trial, jurors watched a 10 minute video of Elliott Williams trying to reach food and water as he lay paralyzed on the floor of his Tulsa jail cell.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter February 22, 2017
The jury is made up of five women and five men. Attorneys clashed Wednesday over attempts by the defense to remove all three black jurors from the pool.
Ziva Branstetter February 22, 2017
A civil rights trial gets underway in federal court in the 2011 death of Elliott Williams. His brother says Elliott deserves justice.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter February 20, 2017
The 10 cases reviewed by The Frontier add up to one in three inmate deaths in the last decade that experts and medical records state might have been prevented with better care.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter February 16, 2017
Attorneys for the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office asserted the video actually failed to capture Williams moving around, eating and drinking despite his apparent paralysis.
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