TMM Executive Director Steve Cranford said the forum, entitled "Women in Corrections -- An Oklahoma Crisis," was held to raise public awareness about the problem.

A retrial of a former FCI Dublin correctional officer whose nickname was "Dirty Dick" is set to begin in an Oakland federal ...

With twice as many women in prison as in other states, Oklahoma is the female-incarceration capital of the United States.

Oklahoma Watch obtained detailed data on mental health diagnoses for men and women in prison from the state Department of Corrections and found dramatic differences in their conditions.

The link is suggested in a report prepared by University of Oklahoma professors Susan Sharp and Susan Marcus-Mendoza. It shows that 64.6% of female inmates in state prisons experienced domestic ...

At an event on Monday, Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt highlighted multiple bills he recently signed into law, including Senate Bill 418, which prohibits prison officials from housing men in ...

Poetic Justice: A group striving to help incarcerated women in Oklahoma to find their voices, and tell their stories.

(Oklahoma City-AP) -- Members of a task force studying the state's female inmates were told that community sentencing programs aren't putting a dent in the number of Oklahoma women going ...

(Oklahoma City-AP) -- Researchers and prosecutors say there may be a link between domestic violence and the high number of Oklahoma women who are sent to prison. <br><br>The link is suggested in a ...

Its first project focuses on “Women in Prison: Why Oklahoma Leads the Nation.” Oklahoma sends more women to prison than any other state on a per-capita basis and has for 14 of the past 15 years.

New research reveals how passed-down prison debt drives the loved ones of incarcerated people, particularly Black women, into ...

In the law-and-order state of Oklahoma, where more women are incarcerated per capita than any other state in the country, a graduation ceremony on Monday celebrated an alternative to locking up ...