A judge's gavel sits atop a sound block, with the faded backdrop of cursive writing from historic documents. A former Oklahoma correctional officer has been ordered to prison time for accepting bribes ...

Accusations of a cover-up emerged during a hearing at the state Capitol on Monday as former employees with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections raised alarms about how the agency was handling ...

The news of the weekend, topics of interest in the Oklahoma City area, weather forecasts, and sports scores are presented by the News 9 Weekend Team. VINITA, Okla. - UPDATE: James Howell has been ...

OKLAHOMA (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) invited KFOR on an exclusive tour into one of their correctional facilities. This comes after Rep. J.J. Humphrey, R-Lane, filed a bill ...

On September 13, the family of Marquiel Dae’juan Ross, 24, received an email from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA (KFOR) – Oklahoma officials are ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) is preparing to take control of the state’s last privately operated prison next month, marking a major shift in how the state manages its incarcerated ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is preparing to roll out the use of body worn cameras in state prisons, and are selecting a group of officers to try them out for 60 days. Several law ...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Jeffrey Matthew McCoy was 32 years old with a wife and two young children when he was shot and killed on May 18, 2012, while doing a field visit as a probation and parole officer. On ...

A man is back in an Oklahoma prison nearly 20 years after he escaped. U.S. Marshals arrested Steven Capps in Muskogee earlier this month, 19 years after he escaped from the Jim E. Hamilton ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s corrections director is backing a $9.3 million effort to revive the state’s prison rodeo, an event that was once among the largest in the nation, drawing thousands of ...

The Oklahoma Board of Corrections last month approved a measure that allows the state to seek proposals from private prison companies to provide an additional 350 to 2,000 medium-security beds for ...