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Gov. Kevin Stitt has engaged in a political and legal fight with some of the most powerful entities in the state, a move that will test his political capital and likely become one of the dominant policy issues of 2020.

In late April Hugo police shot a robbery suspect as well as three small children. Almost eight months later the DA has yet to rule on the case and told The Frontier he will not discuss it.

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.

In honor of Giving Tuesday, here's some of The Frontier's best work from 2019.

Fewer than half of all students at three of the four virtual charter schools in Oklahoma graduated within six years, according to state data.

The Department of Corrections has made changes to the way it houses death row inmates, but some argue they haven't gone far enough.

The change comes following a story by The Frontier that showed CLEET's mental health courses were not being reviewed for appropriateness prior to being offered to officers.

Officials with Oklahoma’s only refugee resettlement organization have already begun to urge Gov. Kevin Stitt to offer his approval for new refugees.

The lawsuit comes after a significant increase in poultry operations in eastern Oklahoma — especially in Delaware County — beginning in late 2017 after Simmons Foods announced its plans to build a new poultry processing facility in Gentry, Ark.