A whistleblower who has claimed there have been sexual assaults and rapes inside Oklahoma’s prisons said she was fired in retaliation. She shared her testimony at a Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee hearing at the State Capitol on Monday.
Despite ongoing efforts to change an Oklahoma legal system that incarcerated Rebecca Hogue for a murder she didn’t commit, Hogue’s attorney says education about domestic abuse should take priority.
The OU Carceral Studies Consortium announced Wednesday it donated 130 books to an Oklahoma women’s correctional facility struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic.