The House and Senate approved a pair of bills to purchase the state's last private prison outright for $312 million.

U.S. Marshals arrested Steven Capps in Muskogee earlier this month, 19 years after he escaped from the Jim E. Hamilton ...

The potential purchase would move Oklahoma out of the private prison business as the Lawton facility is the state's last privately-operated prison.

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James Havens, serving a life sentence for murder, is seeking compassionate release due to terminal illness, but faces ...

Oklahoma lawmakers passed a $12.5 billion budget for 2026 that includes a state income tax cut, a $312 million private prison purchase, and incentives for major business investments.

A House budget committee on Monday voted to move forward with spending $312 million to purchase a private prison in Lawton ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) said in a release that Steven Capps walked away from Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center 19 years ago.

A man who escaped from a southeast Oklahoma prison nearly 19 years ago is once again in state custody, thanks to the combined ...

Felecia Jackson had mixed emotions when she received news that her husband, Eric Jackson, would be transferred from the James ...