Former Director of the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services Steven Harpe now leads the state's corrections ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of Oklahoma Voice’s “Whatever Happened To …” end-of-year series that provides updates to some stories that captured the interest of Oklahomans in 2023 and ...

The Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, the oldest prison in the state, has seen its inmate population fall to less than half of what it was five years ago as ...

After his sentence to life in prison, Maas was confined in Kansas because Oklahoma was not yet a state and had no prison. But when the penitentiary at McAlester opened in 1910, he was among its ...

Richard Rojem, 66, has exhausted his appeals and is scheduled to receive a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. IE 11 is not supported.

William Lewis Reece confessed to one killing in Oklahoma and three in Texas in 1997. All the victims were female.

Oklahoma Department of Corrections interim Director Joe M. Allbaugh announced Kevin Duckworth as the interim warden at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Duckworth succeeds Warden Jerry ...

Editor's note: Emmanuel Littlejohn died by lethal injection at 10:17 a.m. on Sept. 26 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Gov. Kevin Stitt said in a statement that "as a law and order governor ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Efforts to bring back the prison rodeo to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary will continue during the Legislature’s upcoming session.