Oklahoma State Penitentiary News

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' Clemency was denied for a Tulsa man scheduled to die next month for the 1993 beating deaths of a woman and her 6-year-old son as the man's mom pleaded with a state panel Tuesday to spare her son's life.

Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, has announced that Julian Darnell Woodard, 33, an inmate at Oklahoma State Penitentiary, has been sentenced to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 60 months of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute controlled ...

It takes a heap of cooking to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner for 1,200 at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

McALESTER a ' About 1,100 inmates and staff at McAlestera TMs maximum security Oklahoma State Penitentiary will feast on a Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings, done on a massive scale.

About 4,700 Department of Corrections employees will begin taking furlough days in March, the department's director said Monday.

For 8.8 seconds, convicted murderer Michael Fasola felt like a free man - courtesy of a 1,600-pound Brahman bull charging down on him.

A new statue representing a bull rider at the annual Prison Rodeo at Oklahoma State Penitentiary now welcomes visitors to McAlester who arrive from the west.

An Oklahoma County inmate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester is on a hunger strike.

McALESTER a ' Two prison employees working the day an inmate was placed in a cell with the co-defendant he testified against and then beat to death have been disciplined for allowing the men to be placed in the same cell.

It looks like another inmate has been murdered at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

State Corrections Department officials are treating the death of an Oklahoma State Penitentiary inmate as a homicide.

"Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo," an acclaimed documentary about the state's female prisoners competing in the rodeo at Oklahoma State Penitentiary, comes to Circle Cinema on Friday and Saturday nights with a filmmaker and former inmates on hand.

A Kay County woman has been charged in Pittsburg County with trying to smuggle a cell phone and charger, hidden in her shoes, into the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

LAWTON Members of an Oklahoma House committee that allocates money to state prisons toured a 2,500-bed private prison in Lawton on Tuesday as they search for ways to house Oklahoma's growing inmate population and replace crumbling state buildings.

Relatives of three inmates who died last month at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary are questioning the influence of gangs at the state's maximum security prison.

Relatives of three inmates who died last month at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary are questioning whether gangs control the state's maximum security prison.

State lawmakers grappling with a growing inmate population and aging prison facilities are scheduled to tour a private prison in Lawton that houses more than 2,500 Oklahoma inmates.

Relatives of three inmates who died last month at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary are questioning the influence of gangs at the state's maximum security prison.

One of the best rodeos on the road to the International Finals Rodeo, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo draws top contestants every year.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' An inmate at Oklahoma State Penitentiary has died after a fight with his cellmate, the third convict killed this way at the facility in less than a week.