Twelve jurors and three alternates will eventually decide whether former deputy Blake Frost should be charged for killing James Coale last November.
Though jails are often referred to as the new form of mental institutions by mental health and criminal justice reform advocates, the ability to adequately identify mental illness among prisoners or inmates who might pose a suicide risk varies from facility to facility.
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“It’s been really difficult (since Coale was killed,) but it’s been encouraging seeing the support and the people who are behind us,” Kelli Weimer said.
Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regalado also said he and the phone service vendor came to an agreement in the last year to lower inmate phone price rates, and that the previous rates were likely gouging inmates and their families.
Oklahoma has paid more than $1 million to a Canadian company that was recently found by the Georgia Supreme Court to be improperly altering jury lists provided to county governments prior to trial periods.
Masters allegedly gave a patient syringes filled with the patient’s fat tissue and told the patient to take the syringes home, put them in her freezer and self-inject them into her face when she desired.
A Tulsa Police Officer whose body camera began recording a fatal encounter between a north Tulsa man and three law enforcement officers did not break TPD policy by not recording the entire shooting, documents show.
