Prisoners at the Jackie Brannon Correctional Facility are training service dogs to donate to Oklahoma veterans in need.
A candlelight vigil was held at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington D.C.
The head of Oklahoma's prison system said it's only a matter of time before Oklahoma sees a deadly prison riot like the one that happened in South Carolina.
An escaped inmate has been recaptured while driving a stolen Muskogee police officer's truck. Oklahoma City Police confirm Nathan Harmon was arrested Wednesday night during a traffic stop.
DOC is asking the state to triple its budget to build new prisons, provide corrections officers with much needed training, and give staff pay raises.
Oklahoma's chronically overcrowded and deteriorating prisons are seeking nearly $1.65 billion next year to help reverse what Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh says has been decades of neglect.
Joe Allbaugh said Wednesday prison facilities are crumbling and overcrowded, guards are underpaid and understaffed, morale is low and the state is ill-prepared to handle a projected increase in the number of inmates.
