Oklahoma’s prison population has risen above 61,000 for the first time in almost 50 years.
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
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Oklahoma organization delivers special Christmas messages to children of inmates
Oklahoma Messages Project videotapes incarcerated parents reading books to their children.
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Chicken-Fried News: Felonious pharmaceuticals
A proposed state question might help relieve some of the pressure on Oklahoma’s prison system, but not everyone is for it.
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Community forum addresses mass incarceration rates
Local interest groups and officials agree that something must be done to fix Oklahoma’s criminal justice system.
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Incarcerated women get a second chance through TEEM
Local organizations work together to offer female inmates training so they can succeed after they are released.
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Chicken-Fried News: Marriage, arrested
No inmates are allowed to get married in Oklahoma prisons until the Supreme Court issues a ruling on same-sex marriage, thanks to the Oklahoma DOC.
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Chicken-Fried News: Smooth criminal
A former councilman and mayor was arrested for paying inmates to steal copper from tornado sirens.
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Chicken-Fried News: Bad manners
An Oklahoma inmate was killed with a meal tray — seriously.
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Chicken-Fried News: Prison murder
Oklahoma has one of the highest rates of prison homicide in the country.