OKLAHOMA CITY — A state representative is suing the Oklahoma Department of Corrections after an inmate's death in prison.

More inmates died in Oklahoma's prisons in 2024 than 2023. It was the highest number of deaths in state prisons in six years.

Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...

State Rep. Justin Humphrey said multiple lawsuits will be filed by family members of a former inmate from Tulsa who died ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. ( KFOR) – An inmate died in the Oklahoma County Jail Saturday evening, his death is under investigation. According to the Oklahoma County Department of Corrections, 37-year-old ...

Oklahoma’s top prosecutor is asking the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he can be ...

The Oklahoma County jail had its first inmate death of 2025 on Wednesday. Vincent George Burke, 42, of Oklahoma City, died after being transported to a hospital by ambulance, the jail said in a news ...

George John Hanson was sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of a 77-year-old woman who was carjacked and kidnapped from a ...

State Rep. J.J. Humphrey says he will join a lawsuit against the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and show support for the ...

Oklahoma put him to death for the 2006 murder ... first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...