Criminal Justice

As the number of successful medical parole applications stagnates, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted unanimously earlier this month to request a legal opinion on who has the authority to refer a prisoner to the medical parole docket.

April Wilkens will remain in prison after Tulsa County District Judge David Guten on Thursday denied her request to be resentenced under the Oklahoma Survivors' Act.

A Tulsa County judge on Friday denied early release for Erica Harrison, the first person in the county to receive a resentencing hearing under the Oklahoma Survivors' Act.

The report, released by nonprofit Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform, concludes property crime has gone down by nearly a third in the state.

For the first time since the Oklahoma Survivor’s Act went into effect nearly a year ago, a resentencing hearing was held Tuesday in Tulsa County District Court.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s office acknowledges that there were discussions about a plea deal with Richard Glossip but said no formalized agreement was reached.

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will pursue a murder charge, but not the death penalty, against longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss.

Most criminal justice reform conversations at the Capitol focused on making the reintegration process easier as a strategy to reduce recidivism.

The Tulsa County District Attorney’s office has dropped charges against one of three Sperry students accused of rape by instrumentation.

Wendell Grissom, 56, was declared dead by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester at 10:13 a.m. It was Oklahoma’s first execution of 2025.