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

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Catherine Ann Barnard, known as “Kate,” was born in Geneva, Nebraska. Her mother died when she was 2, and her father ...

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

With the purchase of the facility, lawmakers said this will not only benefit the staff and inmates inside, but the every day ...

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

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Lawmakers in Oklahoma will finish up their regular session by finalizing the state's budget for the upcoming year.

Paul Ruiz and Earl Van Denton, who had escaped from an Oklahoma prison in 1977, were eventually convicted of capital murder ...