Five things to know about the Oklahoma County jail’s staffing crisis
A tight budget means there’s little money to hire adequate staff or give employees a raise.
Oklahoma County jail officials reevaluate medical provider Turn Key Health Clinics
Turn Key’s contract with the Oklahoma County jail trust has expired and a vote on a new deal has been delayed. The company is now working on a month-to-month basis at the jail.
Game of inches: Tulsa’s mayoral runoff pits a progressive Democrat against a moderate who will now try to woo Republicans
Monroe Nichols and Karen Keith are vying to become Tulsa’s first Democratic mayor in more than a decade.
At the Oklahoma County jail, a lack of staff means security checks often get skipped
When jailers don’t check on arrestees, the consequences can be deadly. Jail officials have tried boosting detention officer pay and hiring a private staffing company to help, but say more funding is needed.
Tracing the source of dark money-fueled attack ads that helped topple the Oklahoma Senate’s next leader
The attempts to build layers of secrecy around a tangled web of independent political groups span numerous post office boxes, corporate filings and other records across several states.
As Kevin Stitt called for more election spending transparency, his supporters used dark money to hide donors
The organizers of a political action committee that backed the governor’s allies have ties to Stitt. All of the group’s funding came from a nonprofit that doesn’t have to report its donors.
Protestors call for charges to be refiled against Enid caregivers accused of abusing clients with disabilities
An Enid resident organized a protest after the Garfield County District Attorney’s Office dropped criminal cases against former Robert M. Greer Center staff. Protestors called for law enforcement to interview additional witnesses.
Escaping Oklahoma: A worker’s story from inside an illegal marijuana operation
Menacing guards, threats at gunpoint, workers held against their will and never paid — a Chinese immigrant describes the harsh and violent conditions on an illegal pot farm. Three years after he escaped, he still lives in fear.
